Maybe it was just that I happened on some good intro tutorials or something, but I found Git ridiculously easy to pick up and have never really had any problems

Maybe it was just that I happened on some good intro tutorials or something, but I found Git ridiculously easy to pick up and have never really had any problems since. I was using SVN for my job, which was crap (big code base, everything was super sluggish and branching and merging was an absolute nightmare). I tried Git on a little personal project and immediately it felt far better. We switched at work about a year later (it took days to import > 8 years of SVN history). The CLI has some gotchas, but really it didn't take me long at all to work that out. And say what you want about the staging area, but I absolutely love it. You can skip it if you want (git commit -a) but I think it's awesome and super-useful.