In short: This guy wrote a wrapper around git [1] that practically makes it SVN, then wrote a paper about how students don't like the staging area and actually got published. [2]
The real interesting story here is how peer review managed to let something slip through that ignores the main target demographic for git, professionally working and experienced developers; and also ignores such extremely simple hypotheses such as "some people think Git is hard because most learning materials about Git are bad at communicating".
The real interesting story here is how peer review managed to let something slip through that ignores the main target demographic for git, professionally working and experienced developers; and also ignores such extremely simple hypotheses such as "some people think Git is hard because most learning materials about Git are bad at communicating".
[1] http://people.csail.mit.edu/sperezde/gitless [2] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2509578.2509584