I certainly understand the abstraction and how to use git in this sense. The foundation of my above opinion is that I don’t think this is a great idea that’s well applied to modern development.

Is it elegant that the same version control system can be used whether you have a remote server or you just coordinate over email? It certainly is! Is it necessary to have this level of generality and lack of opinions when 95% of users just want to do the same basic flow (and it does involve a server of some kind)? I don’t really think so, which is why I think there is so much confusion around really basic git functionality.

We live in a world where git is philosophically more like Perl than python, and I think that it’s not unreasonable to think that it’s possible that if we flipped that, then that might actually be a good thing.