No offense meant, and I appreciate the anecdote, but I don’t feel that skill level in the technology should indicate the usefulness of the technology. I’m trying to understand more objectively than that.
With mercurial and darcs I never had that happen. Losing code is a deadly sin for a SCM should be behind at least 2 confirmation dialogues.
Whenever pijul reaches 1.0 I will probably switch to that. It seems like patch theory done right.