The ease of creating, deleting and merging branches and patches is what sold me on git over subversion (which itself was a vast improvement over the only VCS I

The ease of creating, deleting and merging branches and patches is what sold me on git over subversion (which itself was a vast improvement over the only VCS I had experienced up until that point, CVS). When the author describes the literal jaw-dropping demos, I remember having a similar reaction.