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I don't champion git, but it is sort of the least worst SCM overall. I'm a graph thinker so that aspect never gave me much trouble, but the CLI is a seriously weird jungle of odd naming, based limitations¹, do-all commands with flags changing the entire command out for a different one and poorly written manpages.

I'd also like to point out that the concept of not having the history local (as in CVS, SVN and some of the still-used commercial SCMs), but only on the special sanctified server, feels seriously weird and extremely limiting to me.

¹ The by far weirdest one is --set-upstream specifically (intentionally?) not working if local and remote branch names don't match, so "git push repository branchLocal:branchRemote -u" doesn't make "git push" work if you are on branchLocal. It feels like that's half the point to have that option in the first place. But nah.



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