Barriers to the use of git by scientists

Although I agree that:

> the basic features of git can be readily used without any knowledge of command line tools

I don't think the command line is the greatest barrier for wider git use in academia.
I think that it takes some time to wrap your head around the pull-edit-commit-edit-commit-...-push workflow and that merging, branching, forking and pull-requesting (not to mention cherry-picking, rebasing and other horrors) are not so simple. So I think there is a steep learning curve, but it can be mitigated with new online courses such as the one offered by [code school and github](http://try.github.com/).

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