> I don't really blame people, since git itself does nothing to teach you how it works. Git it is the definition of something you have to deal with in order to do something more important to you. Some people want to dig deep and understand how the system works: it's nice to sit near that person and ask them for help sometimes.
The official git handbook, freely available on the official git-scm site is not terribly long, and explains the internals on a conceptual level quite well.
I think the problem is most people learning git land on some wordpress site of someone trying to flog a condensed and uninsightful shortcut to getting started with git for ad clicks, which only involves a series of commands without explaining the effects of those commands - This, combined with peoples expectation that an SCM should take no thought whatsoever causes most people that use git on a day to day basis to not really understand it at all.
Git needs to be introduced as powerful data structure, kind of like how SQL is not a DB, imagine someone explaining SQL without ever refering to the DB tables, rows and fields... only talking about git commits is like only talking about the result of a single query. You must understand the data structure to easily use the interface, otherwise the interface will be very confusing or you will be limited to "recipes"... after that you are just learning new variations on how to manipulate and navigate that structure (yes the graph), and from this perspective peoples complaints about the historical inconsistencies we have to put up with in git porcelain are moot.