One of my problems with git is that I don&#x27;t want to have to understand anything and source code control.  It isn&#x27;t something I am interested in.  All I want to do is merge from upstream and commit my changes.  Mercurial lets me do this without needing to understand much, whereas git makes me understand all sorts of stuff just to get this basic job done.  Why should I have to understand the structure of the repository to merge something?  Seems like a classic case of the UI exposing the implementation details.  I get that if you are managing a large project you might want all of Git&#x27;s features, but since that&#x27;s not me, I just do what the XKCD comic suggests.