Many programmers would admit this: our knowledge of Git tends to be pretty… superficial. “Oops, what happened? Screw that, I’ll cherry pick my commits and start again on a fresh branch”. I’ve been there. I knew the basic use cases. I even thought I was pretty experienced after a hundred or so resolved merge conflicts. But the confidence or fluency somehow wasn’t coming. It was a hunch: learned scenarios, commands from Stack Overflow or ChatGPT, trivia-like knowledge without a soli...
