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No, version control is not simple, never was. git was the first vcs that didn't suck because it was the first tool that understood the nature of the problem. All others were ass backward and instead of solving the problem stood in the way and actively made things worse.

Wow, I’d never call version control simple. Actually it’s fiendishly hard. Git makes some simplifications (!) to make the problem more tractable.

What VCS system is simpler? I've used mercurial, svn and git, and git seems the far easier of that sample space.

Git's basic problem is that it has a really a good model for the data, but a really terrible CLI.