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I'm closing in on 15 years of git usage as well.

Before that for a short period I really wanted to get into darcs, the first DVCS I used. I was constantly confused about what commands to use to rectify the off-the-happy-path situations that you find yourself in every now and then. The UI might have been better than git's in a lot of ways but it was distinctly higher-level.

When I learned git and understood the underlying model I had far fewer problems. The commands of early git could have been designed better, but they were more transparent in what they did.

The thought haven't struck me before, but maybe one of the great things about git is that even the low-level/plumbing commands (cat-files/ls-tree/show-ref) have well written man pages.