Thomas, that is a fine rant, but I look in vain for the answer to the question of whether you could get work done after spending 15 minutes learning git instead of cursing it for not having the same command line arguments as cvs. I am sure that with counseling you could get over typing “–help” instead of “-h”.
One of my favourite error messages in from TeX. Stuff this into TeX and look in the log:
\halign{#\global\futurelet\foo\relax\cr\cr}
\halign{#\cr\foo}
It will tell you that “Interwoven alignment preambles are not allowed”. A bit cryptic, you might say, but TeX comes with a manual, i.e., The TeXbook which helpfully explains
If you have been so devious as to get this message, you will understand it, and you deserve no sympathy.