I think the other part that makes git painful for beginners is that it does not mandate a workflow That's a very good point. Every company I worked at that use

I think the other part that makes git painful for beginners is that it does not mandate a workflow That's a very good point. Every company I worked at that used SVN back in the day used it in basically the same way, making it very easy to get started. With git different projects even within the same company can have completely different workflows.