Agreed: attempting to teach that git is simple does people a great disservice.
To be very effective and safe using git, you really do need to understand a bit about its inner workings. I find that to be a big weakness of the tool, and it continues to surprise me that it's become as popular as it has. I personally like git a lot, and find it to be very powerful, but it took time and an interest in deep learning to get there.
I can certainly understand that most people might want a simple VCS that's easy to use and makes it difficult to screw up. Git is not that VCS, by any means.
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Agreed: attempting to teach that git is simple does people a great disservice.
To be very effective and safe using git, you really do need to understand a bit about its inner workings. I find that to be a big weakness of the tool, and it continues to surprise me that it's become as popular as it has. I personally like git a lot, and find it to be very powerful, but it took time and an interest in deep learning to get there.
I can certainly understand that most people might want a simple VCS that's easy to use and makes it difficult to screw up. Git is not that VCS, by any means.