Git is a well designed, well thought out sophisticated tool. Please read through the first few chapters of the official git tutorial[1]. Once you get the menta

Git is a well designed, well thought out sophisticated tool. Please read through the first few chapters of the official git tutorial[1]. Once you get the mental model right, git is immensely simple to use. I highly recommend sticking with the command line. Github on the other hand, was designed to solve a whole different problem. FWIW if you're on Linux (unsure about Windows and Mac), I happen to have zsh and oh-my-zsh[2] installed. They add a ton of incredibly useful git aliases. So for example, seeing a tree view of your project is a simple `gloga` command. Helps by not having to remember the equivalent full command that gives you the same result. [1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2 https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2 [2] https://ohmyz.sh/ https://ohmyz.sh/