"If the power of Git is sophisticated branching and merging, then its weakness is the complexity of simple tasks." The power of Git is its distributed nature a

"If the power of Git is sophisticated branching and merging, then its weakness is the complexity of simple tasks." The power of Git is its distributed nature and the fact that you can maintain local commits. When you have a single remote repository that everyone commits to, then sure, it's really easy to do things (have fun maintaining the ACL and merging any changes contributed by anyone outside the committer list via patch). If you think "it's really easy to branch" is the primary reason to use Git, you're using it wrong.