[darkpuma]

It's common for people teaching others how to use git to start off the lesson with some sort of disclaimer about git being really hard. I think this is a huge mistake. I suppose it's meant to prevent the student from feeling discouraged if they happen to struggle, but the student struggling with git is not a foregone conclusion. Such statements can demoralize the student before they even dive into it though. When you tell your student that git is hard, you are doing them a disservice.

[falsedan]

I usually couch git intros with "git was designed for linux kernel developers to get their work done, specifically filesystem developers, specifically Linus, so a lot of things won't make sense unless you approach it from the mindset of the above. don't worry! that mindset is probably different to yours but you can learn a good approximation to it and then you'll be really good at reasoning about git"