For example, you could do this screencast with svn cp and svn switch rather than git branch and git checkout. I didn’t choose svn arbitrarily: TFS is architecturally and algorithmically very close to svn (not a coincidence!). What’s remarkable about this use case is not that it showcases Git excellence or advantages of dvcs more generally, but that it exposes just how damaging to your productivity the relatively superficial mistakes Microsoft made in their implementation can be.