That's not a good thing. Perhaps it's not that people are "tripped up" by thinking in terms of SVN, but rather, are frustrated that things that should be simple aren't.
Instead, you want them to adopt an anything-goes git model where nearly everything is mutable, no data is sacred, branches and tags can be dropped at will and be gone from the repo refs, and people run around rewriting history willy nilly because they can.
Meanwhile, the poor SVN user wonders why they couldn't just commit, update, and get back to coding already.
