I don't know whether you're an idiot or not, but thinking git is confusing is certainly not evidence to that effect. Git _is_ confusing; it became the de-facto

I don't know whether you're an idiot or not, but thinking git is confusing is certainly not evidence to that effect. Git _is_ confusing; it became the de-facto standard because it was the first free DVCS (and DVCSs solve lots of problems that were common to old non-distributed VCSs), not because its UI is particularly well-designed.