Git Is Simpler Than You Think

Git’s overloaded, confusing language is absolutely the only part of it that sucks. They meant well. They chose words that sound familiar, like branch, checkout, tag, merge. But they often mean different things. Then you get the feeling that, as features were added and rethought, they just picked new unused words as they went along. Stage, fetch, rebase, remotes.
— nfarina

And this is why I prefer Mercurial. It might not be as powerful and fast as git but its easier to learn and use, specially if you come from svn. I believe the main reasons why git became so popular was because it’s Linus Torvalds’ child and because of github (which is awesome).