For years I took your position, particularly since previous VCSen such as Subversion “just worked” and generally faded into the background. However after recently taking the time to learn Git internals, and after pulling out much hair as the guy tasked with figuring out wtf Git had done with the project’s history, or why it was necessary to clone a new tree and manually copy edits over from a seemingly totally broken original tree, I now see that you just can’t use Git without a deep understanding of what it is up to and why. Not that I agree this is the right state to be in as an industry: revision control can be, and was, an almost invisible useful service, but Git just isn’t that.