A common problem seems to be fear of breaking things. That seems to be the opposite of the purpose of version control systems! I had the same experience using a

A common problem seems to be fear of breaking things. That seems to be the opposite of the purpose of version control systems! I had the same experience using a CAD document management system. I wanted to not only backup the repository but also be able to extract files from it manually, both of which turned out to be very hard. I also kept local backups of files because I didn't trust the overly complicated system. Who knows what switch you might set wrong and destroy other people's work.