But don't be discouraged, git really is simple. It's dead simple. The command line syntax is super annoying, i'll give you that, but the underlying tech is a co

But don't be discouraged, git really is simple. It's dead simple. The command line syntax is super annoying, i'll give you that, but the underlying tech is a collection of simple concepts that meld into a complex powerful tool. Frankly speaking, although I like Git, your post doesn't address one of the more important points, especially for beginners: The man pages are one almighty “fuck you”. I have to agree. The examples the author picked are bad, but the rest of the documentation is not much better. It's rather unfortunate, since this is supposed to be an important resource for beginners. But when I look at the page for cherry-pick and I see in the description... Given one existing commit, apply the change the patch introduces, and record a new commit that records it. This requires your working tree to be clean (no modifications from the HEAD commit). ...I can predict that newbies will have a hard time agreeing that Git is "dead simple". Because even if you understand what the command does in terms of the man page, the description does not tell you what you actually accomplish with it. Non-intuitive instructions are nearly as bad as non-existent instructions, and a beginner who wants to understand Git cherry-pick might as well ask Stack Overflow instead.