> That sucks for beginners, but once you get over the hump, git is like a chef's knife—you can do anything with it, quickly and efficiently. 80% of people are

> That sucks for beginners, but once you get over the hump, git is like a chef's knife—you can do anything with it, quickly and efficiently. 80% of people are "perpetual intermediates" or beginners, they never get any better than they have to. And at this point Git is pushed into a lot of environments where a lot of non hard-core hackers are using it. Reality always wins against idealism and the Git UI sucks.