It was also fast and had very clean, easy to contribute to code. I remember submitting a patch and getting a bit of Python education from Matt, which was very useful.

Git is fine but it's inconsistent enough in the interface department, even after all this time, that I still get regularly frustrated. On the other hand, you can't just break a workflow that already exists and I very much appreciate it scales to work far beyond mine.

I do like that the git people are doing the difficult work of improving the UI over time - it's hard to change the engines while the plane is flying!

What? Subversion is by far the most complex versioning software I've ever used.

> Git has so many gotchas, bells and whistles

The Git UI leaves a little to be desired. But inside, Git is basically just blobs, trees, commits, and refs. It'd be hard (or impossible?) to find a conceptually simpler versioning system.