@atoponce I understand that pain.
For me, it clicked, once I read the free book Git from the Bottom Up. https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
Which is both sad and uplifting. Sad, that one *must" understand the internals just to use it. Uplifting because those internals are elegant, simple, and consistent. Everything that the command line tools wrapping that, aren't.
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