Git is art. All programming is a solution to a problem. Some of the problems are very pedestrian and the solution is very boring. There have been many version control systems before Git. I remember using SCCS, RCS, CVS, ClearCase and finally Git came along, and just redefined the whole concept. Sure, the CLI may be clunky at times, but the fundamental problem of version control is solved. I suspect, that historically, Git may be considered as a bigger accomplishment for Linus Torvalds than Linux. After all, Linux is a clean room implementation of Unix, whereas Git is completely original.