It's been almost 4 months since we've migrated our SVN repository over to Git. TL;DR;? We haven't looked back ever since.

I can definitely say our workflow has much improved since the migration. We spend less time merging, we spend less time fussing with SCM quirks, and we are generally much more productive.

Our repository landscape is pretty simple - we have one authoritative repository from which we push and pull the master codeline. Production servers pull from that repository whenever we decide to trigger an update. Local development branches are managed by the developers on their local machines. Sharing development branches is something we don't do often, so we don't directly push and pull branches between devs. Rather, we share them via the central repo. This also allows us to pull those branches onto staging servers when necessary (since the dev machines are not generally accessible from the WAN).

So we're pretty much happy with git. Having that said, we have suffered some backlash - which has pretty much all come from TortoiseGit. Half of our devs run on Linux/Mac while the others use Windows. I won't lie, setting up and running git on windows is (still) not an optimal experience. Windows devs are generally not keen on running command line git, so they resort to TortoiseGit. And as mentioned, TortoiseGit has lots of drawbacks. The main problem is that the Tortoise workflow tries to emulate the classic SVN experience which maps very badly to the git way of things.

The worst symptom we've experienced was the infamous partial merge. It boils down to a TortoiseGit user committing a merge, but unknowingly deselecting files that are thought not to be relevant ("I didn't touch those files, so the safest way is to not commit them in the merge"). Bad, bad, BAD. In git terms this translates to "these files should not be merged, so just dump MY version on top of the existing one". Not only does this mean the you loose the existing changes, but this means that git will have no notion of these files ever changing! This always comes up with a question from another dev asking "hey, where did my changes go?" followed by "the logs don't show any changes, but my code isn't here!". This is by far the worst problems we've had and they have no solution other than educating each dev that "when doing merge commits, always commit all files, even if their not yours".

All in all, we are very happy with git - and 4 months into the migration we can definitely say it has improved our workflow and increased our productivity.