[Pyxl101]

To help learn to use Git properly, start by making many frequent commits from the command line throughout the course of the day. I would say that an appropriate pace is about once every 30 minutes.

When you're done with the feature, then depending on your preference, you can either merge your branch into the master branch, or you can rebase your changes onto the master branch (my recommendation). In both approaches you may wish to squash your commits, so that you ship perhaps just one commit or fewer than your full set of working commits. Then you prepare the changes for code review and for pushing upstream.

The best way to learn about and become comfortable with a tool is to use it regularly. As you approach mastery it will become a swiss army knife. Frequent commits give you a lot of utility for the same reason that editor undo/redo buffer does, except it's persistent.

If you are worried about screwing things up by running the wrong git commands, then check out git's reflog feature, and how you can use `git reset --hard` to roll back changes via the reflog. Virtually every change you make to your local repository is versioned, and the reflog shows you that history and allows you to roll back.