The thing about git is that while it does leak the implementation a bit and some of the CLI commands show their history of its emergency cobbling-together, it s

The thing about git is that while it does leak the implementation a bit and some of the CLI commands show their history of its emergency cobbling-together, it supports many many workflows equally well. At the expense of not having one completely gleamingly-simple happy path as a first-class citizen. It's a bit like C in that respect, which isn't especially surprising considering the inventor.