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I wish people would do a little bit of yak shaving when they run into errors (usually some form of merge conflict when pulling) to learn how to fix them, roll back, etc. They would learn how to appreciate the power and flexibility of git then.

I've helped people in my own open source project when they hit git roadblocks. They've never needed to save out their work and wipe their repo. There was always a solution within git and once they learned it, they really understood how version control worked much better.

I always assumed that xkcd strip was a parody (who didn't do that at least once after all!), but some people seem to consider it a literal advice...

If you deeply understand git, I recommend keeping that to yourself, unless you want to be named in git.txt.

But being the guy who sort of understood svnmerge.py was much worse.

There truly is a XKCD for everything...