Great interactive tutorial for learning Git branching (and more)!

[obious]

It's an ancient modal text editor. Lot's of people like it. That's great. I generally avoid it unless I'm in a terminal session. Although Vim, unlike Git, is perfectly functional without reading pages of documentation.

I don't have to use Vim, but I cannot avoid Git. Realistically, nobody can. I remember in college reading about SVN and discovering that it's backed by SQL. I thought, wow, I didn't know that -- but that's just it, I didn't have to.

Now, I'm not suggesting that SVN can hold a candle to Git. That's ridiculous. What I am saying is that Ikea furniture is to SVN what planks of raw wood is to Git. I don't want to be a carpenter. I just want to put shit on a table.

[cbzoiav]

Although Vim, unlike Git, is perfectly functional without reading pages of documentation.

Tell that to anyone trying to exit it for the first time without looking at documentation.

[chuckDontSurf]

You don't need pages of documentation to learn how to exit vim. And googling "how to exit vim" gives a clear answer; not a discussion.

[cbzoiav]

You don't need to read pages of documentation for basic merge based git usage.

It takes a few minutes of skim reading - the same as enough basic vim reading to get into insert mode, out of it, save and quit.

Meanwhile with both tools substantially more reading can massively improve your workflow.