[boskone]

It is / can be surprising who on your team will have the most problems on a Git from SVN migration. Sometimes ol' CVS/SVN warhorses have too much to unlearn, sometimes simple devs who never bothered to progress beyond the minimal clicks with SVN/IDE to get code up and down discover the true Qi of source control management as they discover git's capabilities.

One nice thing about git vs. svn is when you reach enough mastery you can make that repo dance to your tune. At some point you and git are one and working together. SVN was always some kind of imposing, opposing force; one that I had to fool into doing my desire.

One clueless contractor could put your SVN repo into hell-and-gone. With git I told the team, "don't worry, go for it; unless you do something really strange, there's nothing you can do that I can't recover from."