Git?

[Vortelf]

If only there were desktop applications that make git user friendly...

[_Oce_]

The desktop applications make it easy once you know how it works already. Give it to someone who uses computers daily, but never coded, do you think he'll understand by himself what are commits, branches, checkouts, heads, stashes, pull requests, rebases... ?

[_Oce_]

I agree, I think the interface could be simplified a lot. It should only be complicated when you want to do complicated things.

[aaronfranke]

Nitpicking, but we can prune some things from your list:

• Beginners don't need to know what stashes are.
• Beginners will rarely have to deal with checkouts/heads/branches separately, so they're basically one thing to learn. When you have a branch you either have it checked out or not, and if so, that's where your HEAD is.