I could replace "git" and "cheatsheet" with "Unix" and "GUI", or "ed" and "screen editor", or any number of other difficult tasks. Yet even the experts I know

I could replace "git" and "cheatsheet" with "Unix" and "GUI", or "ed" and "screen editor", or any number of other difficult tasks. Yet even the experts I know today don't use Unix without any GUI -- or line editors. I've been using git for almost 10 years now, and I've read the "concepts and fundamentals" many times, yet I still find these handy. I still google common git tasks, and take the first StackOverflow hit and paste it in my shell. Knowing the fundamentals doesn't make it any easier to memorize overly-complex sequences of steps. Or maybe it does, but it requires someone smarter than me, or twice as long as it took to get both my college degrees. At what point do we admit that something is just too complicated? Reading the Git fundamentals is like learning Maxwell's Equations. Great, you know the fundamentals. That doesn't make it easy to complete any possible task using them. I'm still going to use a cheat sheet (like Ohm's Law!) when I can, rather than deriving everything from fundamentals each time.