At risk of having my karma blown to smithereens, was I the only one who clicked this expecting to find a page of insults?

Yes, that's a pretty good explanation of git.

Probably not hacker news though is it. We get it. Lots of people like Git.

Yeah, it's more a fortune cookie than a news item.

Still, I lol'ed at the second paragraph, so thought I'd cut her some slack. This article also scores on rarity value, or how many girls using git do you know?

I'm still pretty new to git -- care to give some spoilers and explain some of the "wow"?

This talk by Linus Torvalds was what got me excited about Git: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

I wrote this a while back, but just some things that I found surprising about git as I was learning it.

http://webjazz.blogspot.com/2009/01/git-allows-my-workflow-t...

Try to read the community book (http://book.git-scm.com/) the wow is too big to explain in a simple comment, but basically git (or any DVCS) makes your life a lot easier