This. There's two basic types of commercial software (yes over-simplification) turn-key or custom. I work for a shop that does the latter. If I brought software

This. There's two basic types of commercial software (yes over-simplification) turn-key or custom. I work for a shop that does the latter. If I brought software to our clients with the explanation: "toughen up, read the manuals, we adhered to your spec!" then we simply wouldn't get paid. Git or DVCS in general isn't this nature though and is turn-key like MS Office for example. If some part of Office was a usability nightmare most people would simply avoid it. Some may not purchase the software altogether if they were to say take a trial of 30 days and couldn't get passed File->Save As or some rote "simple" command. That is a trite example but the analogy isn't that far off base. I will caveat everything by saying I have drank the Hg kool-aid and will be drunk for some considerable time. It wasn't that it was SVN-like, but as I explore more complex features on my own, my hand isn't slapped in the process. I've hosed repositories in Hg and SVN. I've fixed Hg repositories from codeplex that seem eternally broken given that is the "authoritative master". It didn't take any research at the time but I couldn't recall if the knowledge was entirely latent (i.e. discovered previously) or I had researched it at some point in the past to bring it up in the future. I'm of the notion that if you can jump to any DVCS for the most part you're doing an excellent job. It doesn't hurt that there's hgsubversion or hg-git to make transitions easy but even the more obscure DVCS' are a leg up. I don't bash Git on some crusade, as I look at OSS projects and realize if they use it I probably should too at some point but the barrier to entry is inherently steep. I look to articles like this posted to hopefully stir interest in fixing the usability problem and it's extremely comforting to know that so many people share that it most definitely has a usability problem. I'm not the only derpy one here apparently :>. I really want to learn Git but I definitely do not want to be tasked as the Git-guru of my small developer team. We use a paid hosting firm that only has svn or git to choose from and I can get away with pushing people towards Hg with hgsubversion much easier than playing tech support.