I agree. And for me, the awesomeness didn't really sink in from reading the documentation. I had to actually use it to be won over. Whereas, if you've used CVS, SVN is a breath of fresh air, but it just doesn't blow you away.
This is provocative comment. I use svn every day. It seems to meet all my needs. I find it logical, fast enough, tags, branches, and merging make sense, etc. When I started hearing about git, I looked at the docs and a couple of tutorials, and my conclusion was that it was esoteric. Nothing stood out as "wow that would be really cool" or "wow that's something I have wished I could do but svn doesn't let me". If it's "fast" that's nice, but not enough of a reason for me to switch; I don't feel like my productivity is really hampered very much waiting for svn operations. So, I never actually tried using git.
But, your remarks have intrigued me, so I might give it a try on a couple of personal projects I want to get done.
The awesomeness starts from git init; git add . (or in my case, hg init; hg add). Even if you don't use anything else, this is a big improvement over Subversion.
