This is helpful when you get errors: https://ohshitgit.com/
this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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IME, to use git effectively, and make sense of the man-pages, you have to know a lot of the internals of how git works. I found it helpful to read "Git from the bottom up" when I had to start using it professionally: https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
I'm using Mercurial for the last 2 years at current company, before that it was 5-7 years of Git on various jobs. It's so much better if you use it correctly (no long-living or big branches). I forgot what hell Git was sometimes.
A good GUI can solve most problems.
If my colleagues mess something up in their fancy GUIs, they come to me to fix it in the terminal.