Ouch, please don't. Anything else like bzr or hg or svn will be easier to grasp than git, can work locally too (IIRC for Subversion) and not much harder than zi

Ouch, please don't. Anything else like bzr or hg or svn will be easier to grasp than git, can work locally too (IIRC for Subversion) and not much harder than zip files — don't get them used to the wrong mental model and bad habits.