The first point isn't something you can do: that's something you others have to do for you. Unless you count convincing people to change their workflow, which I

The first point isn't something you can do: that's something you others have to do for you. Unless you count convincing people to change their workflow, which I've found to be near equivalent to moving mountains. In my experience, it seems to boil down to not being effective with their VCS (or in some cases, the VCS not being an effective tool). But it's hard to convince people to go through the trouble of learning something: the short-term cost is just too much, and they seem to be blind to the long term gains. It's like convincing someone to use vim (who isn't an emacs or equivalently-powerful-editor user).