This is a cool essay! It's very approachable. I would really like to understand git under the hood one day, but I'm intimidated by how much it does with such a small memory footprint.

My group project partner and I were having the toughest time with git last night. I thought we were all ready to walk out the door and then we ended up monkeying around with it for an hour and a half.

The atlassian visual guides really helped:

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/

They're great for people who know the names of all the git commands but who are still thrown off in really basic situations, ie 'Is it merge master? Merge origin master? Merge origin/master? Why does it say already-up-to-date?'