Git's user interface is awful until you understand how the organic hairball underlying it is organized, at which point you can mostly "get it." Darcs' hand-hold

Git's user interface is awful until you understand how the organic hairball underlying it is organized, at which point you can mostly "get it." Darcs' hand-holding approach to this is a great example of how to do it; Mercurial's also pretty good (for Hg you need about one tutorial and previous SVN experience, or two tutorials, to "get" it). What Darcs really lacks is a good "Tortoise" client for seamless Windows integration. It was tried (last release 8 years ago; I feel like I can safely talk in the past tense about it) but the userbase has not been large enough to sustain it.