[dsirijus]

Agreed. And not only for Git. For basically anything else in programming land you get to have either hands on quick guides or spec listing. There's serious shortage of good, moderately abstract, short overviews of what something actually does and how it does it.

Take Vim for instance. When I first got to it, I found only resources that are paraphrased with "this command does that. that command does that... nth command does that". Now, if only someone described buffers, tabs and windows to me (like in an article that was recently linked to here on HN), or told me that commands can be described as acronyms of verbs and nouns etc. I'd be much more proficient with Vim now.

For Node.js, I found some talks/presentations from its creator that really hit this spot.

I still haven't found anything like that for Git.

[vrishabh]

> For Node.js, I found some talks/presentations from its creator that really hit this spot.

Mind sharing the specific ones which worked for you?

> I still haven't found anything like that for Git.

I shared a nice conceptual tutorial about git in a reply in another comment of the same thread. Here it is, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4200426

[dsirijus]

Sure. Sorry for not linking to any in the first place.

Here it is http://youtu.be/M-sc73Y-zQA. He got cocky later on, so I don't like very much his presentations of a later date. In this one, he's pretty nervous on occasions. It's cute. :)

I just glanced at the git tutorial provided - it seems it is up my alley. Will check it out later on.