I don't know if you're in TCS or an applied branch, but my experience with TCS labs is that at most 10% of the lab (postgrads and teachers) are able to use some

I don't know if you're in TCS or an applied branch, but my experience with TCS labs is that at most 10% of the lab (postgrads and teachers) are able to use some versioning system. Not a joke: courses supposed to teach programming are organized with Dropbox and email attachments.