Here's the key to git: embrace the fact that you're going to learn a new tool. Learn how to use it and play around with it. Once you're comfortable doing the ba

Here's the key to git: embrace the fact that you're going to learn a new tool. Learn how to use it and play around with it. Once you're comfortable doing the basic things you would do day to day like create a repo, commit, push, pull, branch, merge, etc. then dig in deeper. Now you start reading about how git works under the hood to demystify the things you already know. Articles like "Git for Computer Scientists" are great at this stage. Once you know how git's incredibly simple model works you are well poised to learn more advanced things. Rebasing can be hard for some people to understand and it's even harder if you don't know what commits and branches actually are. After that you need little instruction and should be able to help yourself. It's totally worth it and it's not as hard as you think! edit: Plus once you know how it works you get to skip big parts of articles like this and just skim around to pick up what you don't already know. It's pretty light reading actually.