[majewsky]

Disagree. I learned Git after working with SVN for years. Knowing SVN put me at no advantage whatsoever. If anything, I had to actively get SVN habits out of my brain to make the most out of Git (e.g. SVN trains you to avoid branches because their merging is a hot mess, but in Git, branches are everywhere).

[mic47]

But you were able to be productive on those projects with git, even if you didn't use it optimally, or to full extend, right?

[majewsky]

Sure, but that's moving the goalposts so much that you're invalidating your entire premise.