I agree. Git is powerful, flexible, and (once you grok it) quite simple to understand ... but it baffles new users, and is a complete turn off for people who ha

I agree. Git is powerful, flexible, and (once you grok it) quite simple to understand ... but it baffles new users, and is a complete turn off for people who happen not to be software engineers, even those who are otherwise highly intelligent. I work trying to bridge the gap between a team of mathematicians and algorithms engineers, and a team of embedded software engineers. Most of the embedded software engineers "grok" git (after some practice), and are (fairly) happy using it on a day to day basis. The Mathematicians and Algorithms engineers, on the other hand, aren't really interested in getting to grips with Git (or any version control system for that matter). They'd rather spend their time thinking about mathematics and statistics. (Quite rightly). The decision to use git, whilst justifiable for many valid technical reasons, has definitely thrown up some additional challenges for me and for our organization.