why crucified? you're doing exactly what I do. All the people who have any trouble with git whatsoever try to use it as a black box for some high-level whatever

why crucified? you're doing exactly what I do. All the people who have any trouble with git whatsoever try to use it as a black box for some high-level whatever ideas of what is their workflow should be. And git is not that, git is a thin wrapper around simple and elegant data structure. If you understand it, then everything clicks and git doesn't EVER gives any trouble. Your friends are unreasonable, unless you collaborate with them on the same branches and rewrite them after you shared them.