> significant time and energy
All someone needs is to read through https://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/, and learn a few commands.
Are we seriously going to refer to “reading the manual” as “significant time and energy”? In this case you don’t even have to read the manual, just a primer on how git works. You know, on how the tool that you’re using works. Why are people so allergic to spending even a modicum of time on learning a tool that massively simplifies their life and makes their work possible?
Do plumbers complain about having to read manuals for the equipment that they use? Electricians?
As programmers our tools are easier to learn and use, yet we complain about having to any work at all.
Why even be a programmer? If reading about git is so hard, what about the rest of the field that doesn’t even have documentation?
How about we don’t make tools that cater to the lowest common denominator, in this case people who basically can’t be assed to do anything? RTFM.