[tristan_juricek]

This sort of "git pull" slam is really just an aftershock of shooting yourself in the foot.

The UX of git is so different from other tools, but seems so similar. It's a real problem for newbies. It's easy to think you know what's going on, because is vaguely similar to other operations. And, for the impatient, the documentation is really, really obnoxious. And most developers I've met are fairly impatient.

End result: most developers I've met has shot themselves in the foot when they started to use git.

When I bring people onto git now, I start them with a nice visual tool in an existing repo; my current favorite is SourceTree. But that's not a requirement. The simple fact that they can a nice history log with see tags of "origin/master" and "master" usually triggers that "WTF" experience and they start asking the right questions. If I start them with a new repo, and then have them add, and stage, it's all a bunch of things they could figure out, and they get impatient, and then bad things happen when it comes time to play with others.