My issue with git is the defaults. Generally the defaults and behaviour are geared towards large projects. It is absolutely correct in that sense - you don't

My issue with git is the defaults. Generally the defaults and behaviour are geared towards large projects. It is absolutely correct in that sense - you don't want hundreds or thousands of contributors messing things up. An additional simple example is that push doesn't send tags. But generally you want the opposite defaults for small projects/number of users. For example you do want tags pushed by default so every sees them. This places a large learning curve on the small scale projects and users. Remember that most users will be perpetual intermediates. My analogy is that git is like a sharp knife. In the hands of an expert it can produce art, but in the hands of others we get blood. Some of the responses here are marvelling at the sharpness and what can be done with it, but are missing the point that others end up bloody!