I am not sure what your point is. Subversion, git, hg, darcs all get the job done. Was your choice of git based on its superiority over the other ones or just a

I am not sure what your point is. Subversion, git, hg, darcs all get the job done. Was your choice of git based on its superiority over the other ones or just a side effect of its popularity? The problem with git is not that you will run into issues, it is that other vcs provide a saner ui and require less of their users without missing on features.