My brief experience was largely the same. A disproportionate amount of time trying not to lose all my work and having to checkout again and then trying to use G

My brief experience was largely the same. A disproportionate amount of time trying not to lose all my work and having to checkout again and then trying to use Git on top of it which failed. I only went back to trying to contribute patches when BitBucket sunset Mercurial and the maintainers had to switch to Git.