[dr4g0n]

A version control system with the feature set git has is necessarily complicated, this is not a bad thing. Forcing the complexity on the user is a bad thing, but git does not do this except when it is necessary to. Using git at a basic level is not hard.

This essay is not attempting to explain how to use git, it is explaining how git itself works and how changes are physically tracked. There's no need for a basic user to know this information, but if someone wants to dig into git and understand how it works, this essay is a nice guide. Explaining how SVN or any other version control system works at this level of detail would also be complicated.