I also find the ability to branch and stash easily two super-useful features. Also, I like not having to go to the server to do diffs, merge, or pull files fro

I also find the ability to branch and stash easily two super-useful features. Also, I like not having to go to the server to do diffs, merge, or pull files from other branches. bisect is nice, as well. I use git-svn at work, so I have everything but easy (svn) branching and I find it super useful.