The best way to understand Git is to learn Mercurial. It teaches you the things that matters with none of the useless implementation bullshit. If you start wit

The best way to understand Git is to learn Mercurial. It teaches you the things that matters with none of the useless implementation bullshit. If you start with git, you won't have a clue where the interface ends and the implementation details starts. Which is why, I think, people find git hard. I still hope that the whole development world will come to their senses and start using Mercurial more and more...