On 16 July 2020 at 09:35 "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

Git is now much more common and much less nerdy than it was in 2006, but that's not necessarily what wiki editors think.

Correct. I had to look at it in January, and I'd have to set aside time to know what it was.

Time to cite, in relation to "the simplest thing that actually works", 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good

On "barriers to entry", no one knows all about those. But see above.

Charles