In short: This guy wrote a wrapper around git [1] that practically makes it SVN, then wrote a paper about how students don't like the staging area and actually

In short: This guy wrote a wrapper around git [1] that practically makes it SVN, then wrote a paper about how students don't like the staging area and actually got published. [2] The real interesting story here is how peer review managed to let something slip through that ignores the main target demographic for git, professionally working and experienced developers; and also ignores such extremely simple hypotheses such as "some people think Git is hard because most learning materials about Git are bad at communicating". [1] http://people.csail.mit.edu/sperezde/gitless http://people.csail.mit.edu/sperezde/gitless [2] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2509578.2509584 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2509578.2509584