Like I said, neither I, nor my team mates had issues that you describe, nor do I see evidence of this behaviour in Linux development methodology from what I read on the mailing lists. Just because a suboptimal workflow may be created with git, it does not mean you should forgo its power altogether - in fact, one of the main "features" of git that people describe is that it can support more than one way of working in a team.

However, you clearly have your mind made up, so, let us leave it at that.