Same for me. I avoided getting into Git for years (long ago when it was new, before GitHub) and found the man pages unhelpful. Git From The Bottom Up totally

Same for me. I avoided getting into Git for years (long ago when it was new, before GitHub) and found the man pages unhelpful. Git From The Bottom Up totally turned it around for me. Ever since then I've been comfortable using Git in all sorts of advanced ways, such as constructing repos from old software backups, editing decades of history to separate out publishable parts from proprietary or inappropriate parts while keeping the history, fixing broken repo issues, as well as regular daily use the way most people use it.