The burden of having to know everything about it, is precisely what gets in your way. Granted, I use an actual tool (sourcetree) that abstracts away the BS that

The burden of having to know everything about it, is precisely what gets in your way. Granted, I use an actual tool (sourcetree) that abstracts away the BS that is the git commandline. This idea that 'if you don't like the tool, it's because you're not good enough to use it, because you don't know everything about it' is elitist hokum.