If I understand git right, it's designed to allow different front ends - the "porcelain." I wonder if an alternative "porcelain" could be made which would be more intuitive to some?
It was made several years ago, near the birth of Git, called cogito. http://git.or.cz/cogito/ . It's currently deprecated.
It was how I learned Git actually; it made the UI very similar to mercurial's UI. It was actually a surprisingly good learning curve, because it allowed me to experiment with git commands side-by-side with cg commands on the same repo, and I slowly transitioned out of cg into full-fledged git, almost without noticing. I'm a little sad it's not maintained.
That thought has been in my mind for some time... maybe one day I'll actually get annoyed enough to write a nice wrapper. Where nice is subjective and == like svn and mercurial, with sane defaults (so no options are needed most of the time) and completely redesigned 'remote'.
I just read the 'intro' presentation ( http://people.gnome.org/~newren/eg/presentations/git-introdu... ) and I have to say I am really excited to try easygit out. It stays very similar to the way git operates, but it seems to make the default actions far more logical to me. Even as someone who has spent time trying to 'master' git really appreciate this effort.
I tried eg - but unfortunately, it's a leaky abstraction. As soon as something went wrong (and to this day I have no idea what), I was confronted will full-on git errors, suggesting I use git commands to fix them.
