I have to say I struggle with advanced source control management and DVCS. Every time I have been in a development team that proposes anything more complicated

I have to say I struggle with advanced source control management and DVCS. Every time I have been in a development team that proposes anything more complicated than a basic branch, I start to break out in hot sweats. I think this has come from experiences where we have had multiple live branches and then got into a mess with merging, testing, incompatibilities, not having the right thing on the right branch etc. When it does all work, it feels more luck than judgement. I agree with a poster above that some of the teams that I have been on seem to spend massive amounts of time moving code between branches and accounting for it. It feels like such a drag and a distraction that it's often not worth branching even for fairly substantial changes. I think I need to slice off a few days to really deepen my understanding of GIT or similar.