FWIW, this is what made git really click for me: http://git-scm.com/book http://git-scm.com/book In particular, the appendix on internal representations made e

FWIW, this is what made git really click for me: http://git-scm.com/book http://git-scm.com/book In particular, the appendix on internal representations made everything make sense. Once you understand that commits form a DAG with a set (branches, tags, HEAD) of roots, it makes a lot of sense. Or so I thought.