Moving from SVN to git felt like liberation because there were suddenly idiomatic ways of expressing states that were sort of smushed together by SVN -- stuff like, "I have some changes in my branch I want to line up for commit" which, became the handy one-word concept, "staging".

The before-times were marked by a lack of these fine distinctions. While they existed in fact, they were obscured in-system.

Like a map, any tool should 'resemble' the sphere of human activity it potentiates, and git resembles our diverse workflows better because it has so many asinine distinctions.

This was always its strength, and indeed, likely the reason the platform is called 'git' in the first place, as 'smarmy git' (English idiom for 'smartass') implies an insufferable drawer-of-distinctions.

And like a smarmy git, it's easier to complain about git than it is to replace it.