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Is the official git documentation insufficient?
I want to learn about that specific issue rather than spending months with learning less often used features of a software. People generally don't master all the available functions of a software before touching said software. Maybe in the sixties-seventies, but not anymore. And there's also the issue of people forgetting stuff, which will happen when my main interaction with git is pull and push.
You do realize that you don’t have to read a documentation from beginning to end, don’t you? But for that specific feature you need and don’t know how to use—RTFM!
Check out the Atlassian docs for any git related topics or commands as they are usually easier to make sense of with example situations and explanations beyond describing just the feature or functionality.