The goal of this piece is not to teach people how to use git, but to give a way of thinking about git that will hopefully help new git users understand it bette

The goal of this piece is not to teach people how to use git, but to give a way of thinking about git that will hopefully help new git users understand it better. It ended up being more of a wall of text than I had hoped. Feel free to fork it: https://gist.github.com/1951984 https://gist.github.com/1951984