That can all be true, but it doesn't make git any less of a nightmare to learn. Even very experienced git users make mistakes and need to google things all the

That can all be true, but it doesn't make git any less of a nightmare to learn. Even very experienced git users make mistakes and need to google things all the time. Its become almost a trope at multiple places I've worked that even once in awhile someone makes a mess of their git repository, and needs to call for help from one of the 2 people in the entire office who understand git enough to unbreak it. Another annoying inconsistency: git tag prints a list of tags. Git branch prints a list of branches. Git commit prints ... modified files? And git stash modifies the stash. You need git stash list to see the stash. What!? I get it; its a complex tool. Its managing 4 different storage areas for your code (the repository, the staging area, the index and the stash). It also manages tags, branches, remotes and configuration. And it has multiple networking interfaces. But I can't escape the conclusion that its just not a very good user interface. A good interface wouldn't be so hard to use. Redis is more complex, but I don't make so many mistakes using the redis cli. Awk is more powerful - but its much more intuitive. And cargo probably has more subcommands than git does, but I don't get lost in them. Git? Git is a mess.