Yeah, this is how I always introduce git to newbies. “You know how you zip up a copy of your project when you have a version you want to keep? Git is that, exce

Yeah, this is how I always introduce git to newbies. “You know how you zip up a copy of your project when you have a version you want to keep? Git is that, except with a bunch of (sometimes slightly wonky) tools to keep track of everything.” I also try to start them off with gitk/`git gui`, which make it a lot easier to understand what’s going on (“ok, so here you see a diff with the changes you made. Now you stage the file, and it moves down here. You can put it back by unstaging it, but for the moment let’s commit it. Now in the graph you can see your new commit, with a line pointing at the parent, and your branch pointer moved along with it, but the origin/branch pointer stayed behind, so to get that to move we need to push the new commit to the remote...”)