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Come on, getting comfortable with a couple of incantations takes people a whole _year_? Because you don't need much more when you're starting out.

Not always, but if you only do some of those incantations a few times per year, and what you remember is that you tended to get them wrong... it's a bit of a pain. This is partially why I switched to GUI clients for day to day. Tower (and maybe others) have an 'undo' which gives me a bit more confidence to try/test out things, because I know if it's wrong I can hit 'cmd-z' and be back where I was (at least until I push!).

> But still, everyone remembers how hard it was to start out

I sure don't. I learned the commands I needed (branch, checkout, clone, push, pull and commit) and didn't step out of those bounds until much later. It's really no different than learning any other skill or platform. Nobody starts out a master, but that's no excuse to never start.

> I think everyone that starts working with git is a bit hung up by its complexity at least for a year, if not more.

I had enough SVN merging issues so when git appeared I forced transition to git in a 3 month-period including writing Git-plugin for Hudson (Jenkins).