So it sounds to me like the main issue here is that the original poster did not understand Forking and Pulling, and how important it is to compartmentalize your

So it sounds to me like the main issue here is that the original poster did not understand Forking and Pulling, and how important it is to compartmentalize your team using those 2 GIT(hub) features? You don't go handing the keys over to the main repository to just anyone. You make contributors fork your work, then you pull in changes that you like. This leaves you 100% in control of versioning and the main branch of the project.