You can either learn the tools of the trade, or you can go online and complain about how your hammer is too hard to use and so you refuse to hold it right. How is that not complaining?
You tell the guy using a brick as hammer that it isn’t actually a good hammer, no matter how many other people are also using bricks as terrible hammers. Git is a brick.
That's not a good analogy. A better analogy is someone telling you that you need to understand material sciences to be able to use an impact driver properly.
No, and you can't learn git in an afternoon either. Here's a very very simple scenario. You and I are working on a fork of a project. You make a branch and push it. I want to update an unrelated branch with the changes from the fork, so I follow [0] (note all of the various adjustments in the comments), and suddenly git switch doesn't work for your branch anymore.
Git has dozens of failure modes like this where the behaviour is completely unintuitive unless you understand the internals of git.
No, it doesn't. It does make learning it practical considering it's what everyone uses.
If you think you can do better, please do! Let me know when you've gotten a few projects to switch over and I'll gladly learn that, too. Not a lot of projects using mercurial these days.
Practically speaking, anything mainstream that I actually use. And the "still" qualifier there is the problem. That number should be growing, not shrinking.
Ok. Mainstream... you use it..
How about:
nginx, sudo, pypy, mozilla/firefox, facebook?
And. totally agreed, the number should be growing (especially for such a nice piece of tech with a far better toolset). Now that you've signed on to learning, hopefully that will be the case.
