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That is the chicken-and-egg problem with git: to understand it well, you need to understand the lower level algorithms, because this is how git was developed in the first place. But most people will complain that it is hard to learn this low level interface, so they will always get stuck when understanding the high level operations.

It is in a sense the same with C programming. C is extremely easy to understand if you have a good grasp of machine architecture and assembly language. Everything makes sense. But if you look at it from the point of view of a high level language, you will always be amazed at why it does things in that particular way.




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