I agree in the sense that it is important to understand the underlying concepts of Git. Once that is clear in your mind, it becomes much easier to use. When I

I agree in the sense that it is important to understand the underlying concepts of Git. Once that is clear in your mind, it becomes much easier to use. When I explain Git to other people I explain it as a tool for manipulating commit graphs, where every node in the graph is a (merge) commit with some unique hash, where a commit itself is just essentially a patch on the previous node(s) in the graph. Implementation details on how this commit graph is manipulated or stored behind the scenes are not important to understand Git in my opinion.