Agreed - I started to use version control back with SCCS somewhen in the early nineties, and RCS, CVS, Subversion, ClearCase, some Microsoft horror with a name I can't recall, and a few others. My conclusion is exactly the same as yours: "Git is the simplest version control system I've ever used." And it also improved my overview over what happens and has happened in the past - I can jump back in for stuff I haven't touched for many years. So I now think of the older version control systems I used over the years as simple "snapshot backup" systems, not real version control.
(NB: I've never actively used Mercurial, other than because some projects use it, so I'm not comparing Git and Mercurial, or the other one or two systems with similarities.)
That's possibly the one.. I worked for a year on a customer's site, and the source we delivered had to be put into their MS VC every time we delivered it. The major pain was that the namespace was flat.. you couldn't have more than one file in the whole tree called "Makefile" or "ChangeLog", for example.. so we made a transformation tool to make every file name unique before it got pushed into the version control system, and a reverse tool which transformed back when you checked it out, so that one could build the software.
