git wasn't designed to be used by humans. I can't find the quote, but Torvalds said at one point that intention of Git was to provide a content-addressable grap

git wasn't designed to be used by humans. I can't find the quote, but Torvalds said at one point that intention of Git was to provide a content-addressable graph that more human-friendly tools could build upon for different use cases. Those 10 commands are the beginning of the iceberg when you actually start using git with teams. Where are `rebase`, `merge`, `branch`, etc? These are all commands I use daily, they are complicated, and it's trivial to shoot yourself in the foot. The problem is that you can learn those 10 commands and things will work, until they don't, and you as a beginner are now spending hours trawling StackOverflow to figure out how to, say, pull a commit from one branch to another (you might not know that such a process is called "cherry-picking"). It's telling that Torvalds said this more recently about git: > The first Git For Dummies and Git Visual Quickstart books are going to be out in a couple of months, and that is the beginning of the end as far as I’m concerned. Those books mean the end of git expertise and github reputation as reliable indicators of geek status. Once a technology is adopted by the masses the extreme geeks find something more esoteric. Look at what happened to Ruby on Rails. The people stumbling their way through Rails to-do list tutorials have never even heard of DHH.