The argument is that you have to know how the tool itself works in order to use it. This is, eventually, true with _every_ tool. Consider Postgres: It's really

The argument is that you have to know how the tool itself works in order to use it. This is, eventually, true with _every_ tool. Consider Postgres: It's really pretty easy to get up and running and for simple things works great. Once you start taxing the system you have to know how it's configured, what settings you have optionality over, and obviously how the subsystems work and behave based on those settings. This is just true with any dependency you take on: Any problem the dependency has is, eventually, your problem too. Git is a dependency of your software development process.