I must admit that when I first learnt git, I thought that the only way to correctly use git was to know the object model of git. I thought this was important be

I must admit that when I first learnt git, I thought that the only way to correctly use git was to know the object model of git. I thought this was important because git is at the end a data manager and I then though that one should know the data model you are manipulating in order to manipulate it in correct way. In that respect, I always found git commands mostly intuitive. Much later in my career I learnt that people were using git without even knowing anything about what a Merkle tree is and I must say I was extremely surprised. I'm not saying its good or bad, just describing my younger days.