Nice post, thanks.

I've been using traditional RCSs for years but find that whenever I introduce SVN (or CVS before that) to a team it's very easy for new users to fall into bad habits around branching and committing transitory changes.

I'd like to try git to help manage the mess during the prototyping phase but I'm wondering how suitable it is for new users to learn git vs. learning svn.

Any opions out there on the suitability of git as a first version control system? My team consists of highly experienced engineers (EE/FW) with little or no software engineering experience.