Seigo: ending the cults of personality in free software

I find git's command interface hopelessly confusing too. Git itself is clearly rather clever. The command UI is deeply inconsistent even after you've munged your mental model into something git-shaped. The other surviving VCS's (svn, hg, bzr) have a more logical set of commands that make them a lot easier to get started with. It's unfortunate that we are going to be stuck with git's peculiar command set for evermore. I don't have an opinion on to what degree this is Linus's fault - but it's definitely someone's. I certainly couldn't care less what Desktop he uses, and thought that aseigo's comments on the general issue were pretty sound.