As a counterargument, git is quite hard, and I see smart engineers make seemingly simple errors frequently. Its documentation is sprawling and verbose, and its

As a counterargument, git is quite hard, and I see smart engineers make seemingly simple errors frequently. Its documentation is sprawling and verbose, and its UI "porcelain" is frequently terrible. Did you know you can use `git fetch origin master:master` to update an un-checked out local branch? Go find where that's documented: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fetch https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fetch Spoiler, here's all you get: > The format of a <refspec> parameter is an optional plus +, followed by the source <src>, followed by a colon :, followed by the destination ref <dst>. The colon can be omitted when <dst> is empty. <src> is typically a ref, but it can also be a fully spelled hex object name. Just a truckload of jargon. There's thankfully one code sample to give context, but it's at the bottom of the page – nearly 7,000 pixels of scrolling away from the description of it.