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But are these things a normal user would need to care about?

I bet if you created a great git desktop app with outstanding UI it would still have a few corners 99% of users would never touch or understand.

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> But are these things a normal user would need to care about?

... yes? I've used all three of those commands in the past, although I don't remember what they do. and I'm hardly a git expert.

How to undo a change or revert to a previous version? That sounds like a pretty fundamental thing that a user would need to do, yes.

It is usually as easy as "git checkout ID".

If that doesn't work you probably have done something really bad to begin with.

That's probably not what you want. Checking out an ID would put you in a detached HEAD state, and the CLI will give you the page of warning messages that go along with it. I think that this is an excellent reminder that yes, the git CLI is not simple or obvious.

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