I've been able to avoid git repos for the most part, or the few times I've had to interact with them I've kept it a bare minimum of contribution to avoid any co

I've been able to avoid git repos for the most part, or the few times I've had to interact with them I've kept it a bare minimum of contribution to avoid any complex workflow. It's not the best idea especially since the industry still largely uses git, however I haven't had the appropriate occasion to learn git while also learning the project and commit the git process to memory. I've heard you can use hg on git repos but I haven't investigated using that yet. By far I think the things that confuse me most are I believe two points you brought up in your post -- local vs. public changesets, and working in a detached head state (working on a feature branch and then rebasing onto primary branch for landing). I think on top of that I get overly confused when github is thrown into the mix as again I've not sat down to learn the process since it comes up only sporadically.