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@kovshenin: Yes, I saw it. Tried to use it to import my SFC plugin. It failed miserably. So, color me unimpressed.

@curtismchale: I dislike git because I find it overcomplicated for the types of things I want to do. I want to check out code, change it, and check it in. Git makes this unbelievably complex and annoying to do. The whole concept of having the repo local is silly. I don’t want to check things in locally. What would be the point? Some people say that you can revert locally if you break something. That would be fine, except that I never do that. If I break something, I fix it. I don’t revert.

I can see git for a special case, which is multiple distributed developers, collaborating on a largish piece of code, and having a management team to administrate and coordinate those changes. It seems specially designed for that use case. The way it works is that it unloads all the complexity of merging and such off the administrators and onto the individual developers, raising the bar for entry. And that’s fine for that use case. Such a case fills no need of mine.

Git does branching and merging better, I grant you. These are two things I rarely ever do, and rarely ever want to do. For the individual developer working on their code and wanting to publish to a central repository, Git has no advantages, and the added complexity (and immaturity of the product on various platforms) makes it have several disadvantages at this time.

For now, I hate Git. It’s annoying and difficult to use. This may change as it matures, but for the time being, it is not a system I can use effectively.