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Have you used Mercurial? I found it a lot more user friendly, especially with TortoiseHg for Windows. Not sure if that’s still around as I don’t use Windows any more but even though there are many similarities, git always feels like it’s designed to solve problems I don’t want to use source control to solve.

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TortoiseHg is still maintained and works both on windows (no direct experience) and linux.

The development happens on its mailing list, but there is also an Heptapod (a gitlab fork modified to also support mercurial) instance here: https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/tortoisehg

Interesting enough, almost all my work nowadays consists of interacion with git remotes. But my local clone has always been mercurial via hg-git.

I'll give it a try, thanks!

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