[dogleash]

Your perspective is one I've only recently come to understand after migrating a team to git and being the "source control guy."

The lesson I learned was: Prescribe everything about the workflow because nobody is going to learn git.

All the nice flexibility of git just becomes risk. By the time you have enough structure in place, you're back where you started: rigid source control, and you're using git locally on the sly.

The only person who bothered learning git well was a summer intern. And he mastered it, so I remain frustrated.

[andrewvc]

For what it’s worth I know git fairly well and have used more git strategies than most. I just happen to have found that simple usage actually works better for me personally and most teams I’ve been on.

Knowing a tool also means knowing what not to use:

[mixmastamyk]

Like an acceptable subset of C++.