To be honest, I haven't used branching yet. But from what I hear it's much easier to do in Git, and developers love it.

Branching is in fact one of the best features of git, but it's so powerful and loaded with features that the documentation has become a trial to use.

I think we're in need of some really simple documentation for git, created specifically for visual learners. Even coming from the svn world, it's a bit hard to understand what "decentralized" really means, in terms of usage.