Agree. I always hated git and thought it was so arbitrary and unhelpful. Then I sat down for 1-2 hours and read about how it works. It's not that complicated of a model that it operates on. Once you learn the model, the rest of the commands and how it works start making intuitive sense.
I’ve yet to find a good intro doc that explains how git works conceptually. There are too few visual examples with authors assuming that users already understand the basic concepts like commits. To people who are completely new to version control, git can appear nonsensical.
Funnily enough I think Atlassian/Bitbucket comes close to a good intro doc to git on their site complete with a visual guide. I still found it inaccessible to people totally new to the basic concepts though.
No, this one is good (I'd say I regard it as canonical!), but only if you know how commit works on a conceptual level. It is not targeted at absolute beginners.
