I actually understood Git much better as soon as I switched from a graphical interface (which was Git Tower at the time) to just using the Git CLI. I feel like

I actually understood Git much better as soon as I switched from a graphical interface (which was Git Tower at the time) to just using the Git CLI. I feel like the graphical interface/overhead obscured what was really going on and made me not so much learn Git, but the tool on top of it. Git Tower is actually a great tool, but I believe Gits core concepts cannot be understood well without lots of experiments with the bare Git CLI (what helped me most was making toy repos → testing my hypotheses on how things work → observing/inspecting results).