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> Our of curiousity, what have you got against it?  Have you tried it?
> Its an order of magnitude better than cvs/svn.

I have to use git at work, as well as managing the geda git repo.  It
seems that no matter what "simple" operation I do, it fights me at
every step.  I've had cases where my local repo got so confused that
it was easier to delete the repo and start again than to try to figure
out what happened to my patch.

It gets much worse on projects with a shared ChangeLog - pretty much
every big patch I've made has ended up with a ChangeLog conflict, and
conflict management is git's weak point.

FYI the BIG reason why cvs is better for gedasymbols is it's the only
one that lets you check out and manage a subdirectory of the repo.