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Git is intended as a tool for programmers, which are precisely those "mechanics" he mentions. Any programmer who's scared away by that doesn't understand what they do.

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Err - Maybe we just resent having to spend so much time on the mechanics of the tool/s rather than our main activity which is writing code.

Oh, I agree. But if the net result is something that works better, the fact that it needs some internal tinkering shouldn't scare programmers away.

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