I can't help but feel that Git has completely missed the forest through the trees that you can make a 30+ part guide explaining how to use it.
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I can't help but feel that Git has completely missed the forest through the trees that you can make a 30+ part guide explaining how to use it.
Eh, yes and no.
Git porcelain stuff's plenty good for probably 95% of users. `rebase -i` comes with a guide on which commands do what, and you could write a couple of paragraphs about how to format `git log`'s output with your own preferences and tradeoffs -- and porcelain usually includes stuff as eclectic as `git gc`, `git fsck`, and `git rev-parse` by most accounts.
Git plumbing's definitely a bit more obscure, and does a bunch of stuff on its own that you can't always easily do with porcelain commands because they're optimized for the common use cases.
TL;DR: while Git's big (huge even), a lot of what it provides is way off the beaten path for most devs.