Learning to commit and push doesn't take that long, that's enough to maintain history and backup, which is what most sole developers need from git in the beginn

Learning to commit and push doesn't take that long, that's enough to maintain history and backup, which is what most sole developers need from git in the beginning. Then you learn branch or diff for cases when you need it. Then when you need to revert back to some older version you learn that. Then when you need to automate deployments you learn a bit about tagging or some branch structure for development, bug fixing, deployment whatever. You don't have to learn it all from the beginning, you learn as you go, that's at least how it works for me. Then you might learn bits and pieces for one time use and forget it later because you don't need to use it again for a year. It is just the normal pace of learning git, you don't have to grok it all at once