[andrewflnr]

This has been danced-around in the comments, so I'm just going to say it: I don't need the concepts of git simplified, I need a better explanation of how git's bizarre command set maps onto the obvious DAG/filesystem operations.

[ams6110]

Seconded. And, at 30 printed pages, I'd hate to see the non-simplified explanation (no, I didn't actually print it).