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Only if you make git that complicated. Steps 2-6 can be replaced with:

git commit -m "commit message" file1 file2 ...

When you use a tool inefficiently, don't blame the tool.

That's still a lot more verbose than svn and even if you do that, you still have only managed to reduce the number of commands required from 3x to 2x what svn requires.

Also wouldn't you agree that git has a much steeper learning curve than svn? What is this due to if not the added complexity?

1) Edit some files 2) git commit -a -m "blah blah" 3) git push

So, it adds one extra command to push things to an upstream git repository. But, this is the nature of being decentralized.

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