> That's like saying Linux would be better if they only gave you ls, cat and nano because vi, sed and xargs were too complicated.

That's a rather condescending thing to say and not accurate or supportive of the view of git you seem to hold.

> The truth is commands like filter-branch, rebase, cherry-pick, etc. which are notoriously difficult to use... you don't even have to use them.

Until someone on the team _does_ use them and then things can become messed up in ways it takes a git expert to figure out how to fix. I've used git for several years and had never even come across filter-branch, I'd have to chase down the git docs to see what it even does. I never had to filter anything with CVS, Continuus, Perforce, SourceSafe or Subversion.