Not just that, the descriptions you find online of how it works simply don't prepare you for the reality of using it. It's a bunch of boxes and arrows when what

Not just that, the descriptions you find online of how it works simply don't prepare you for the reality of using it. It's a bunch of boxes and arrows when what you really want is what to do when things inevitably don't work how they are supposed to. I mean, everyone who has written a guide to rebasing must live on Mars. They show how your branch used to point to this box, but now it points to THIS box! And then what you really get when you actually try to use it is a bunch of conflicts between changes that affect files you haven't done anything to and a shit ton of confusion.