I love git, but even git checkout is asinine. It's fine for checking out a tag/branch/rev/treeish, but why on earth does it also revert files to their checked in state if given a path argument?

I don't think git should be prone to trashing local state due to how it usually yells at you when it's about to do that, but then I've been working with a student this quarter who seems to do that every time I push something to github and she needs to pull. I think if the git community got together, did a usability study on how people actually use git, and renamed/split out commands into names that made sense, it would be a huge boon for general usability.