To me the single best resource for really building a mental model of git (and not just learning how to do a handful of 'cookbook' actions) is the git user manua

To me the single best resource for really building a mental model of git (and not just learning how to do a handful of 'cookbook' actions) is the git user manual: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.... Once I read that, I never had to look at any git intro tutorials again.