However, shit like this makes me stop reading:
"Git has a huge user community. If following the herd and being like everybody else is important to you, then you should choose Git."
The poem isn't actually in praise of making unusual choices — it's about rationalizing the choices we make so that they seem more intelligent and important than they actually were. In the text of the poem, the narrator goes to great lengths to make it clear that he can't tell any difference between the paths in front of him. So he decides to choose one arbitrarily, and tells us that years from now, he'll tell people that he took this little-traveled road and that set the course of his life.
My reading of the last stanza differs from yours: he's not saying that he'll tell people, falsely, that it set the course of his life; he's saying that although he couldn't see any good reason for choosing one over the other, as his life goes on it'll turn out that it made a big difference.
The thing that intrigues me about this poem (which, actually, I don't much care for despite its fame) is the title. "The road not taken". That's not the perhaps-less-worn path he did take, it's the other one. Without that title, if you asked me which path was more the subject of the poem I'd have said without hesitation: the one he took, which "has made all the difference". But no: the spotlight is on that sigh with which Frost will be telling the story, the regret (if that's the right word) that he couldn't try them both. I think.
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, ...
[Road "First", aka "Scary Road"]
And looked down one ... To where it bent in the undergrowth; ...
[Road "Other", aka "Happy Road"]
Then took the Other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim, ...
Oh, I kept the First for another day!
Substituting, this brings us to, "I didn't take the Scary Road; I took the Happy Road."
Then, the key is...
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, ...
I'd say the Scary road is the one "less traveled".
I shall be telling this with a sigh, ...
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by
Therefore, the poem is about a lie.
If both roads are just as fair as each other, there isn't one scary one and one happy one, there's either two scary ones or (more likely) two happy ones.
Anyway, shouldn't it be ONE road diverged in a yellow wood? If TWO roads diverged, that would make four.
The poem is about a man who, "years and years hence", will be remembering his life, and up there near the top of his memories to tell people about is how he chose which of two almost identical paths he took when walking in a wood, once, and they were roughly the same. Does that sound like the sort of memory someone who would pick a scary road would choose to reminisce about? Does it sound like the sort of tale a habitual liar would tell? No to both. It sounds like the sort of tale a really boring person with no interesting memories would tell.
He was walking through a wood, not trying to get anywhere in particular and not caring where he went. It was probably quite pleasant, and it wasn't the hundred acre wood or the Lord of the Rings evil forest, both roads came out the other side of the wood and then he went home.
As for "Why would he sigh if he were not lying?", I hardly know what to say: what do sighing and lying have to do with one another? He expects to feel some regret, some sense of a missed opportunity, at never finding out what was down the path he didn't take. At least, that's my reading and it has the advantage that regret does sometimes make people sigh, whereas lying doesn't.
I agree with you on the title though. It puts a really nice spin on the poem.
They try to say that your voice will be comparatively louder and you'll get more attention from the developers, but in a large community, you get attention from the community as well. The only thing you can get from using an unpopular project is an adrenaline rush from living on the edge.
Also I don't think "lack of rebase" is a feature. If you don't want it in git, just forbid using it for your project. However, if you want to maintain a patch-set outside of a project it's the best thing since sliced bread.
One day, I tried hg by chance and discovered it was as fast as git and as sensible as bar :( Now I have no idea what to use.
If you know git you can contribute to any project on github more easily. That is an advantage, though it would be utterly foolish to make your choice solely on this point.