I've worked with many folks over the years after learning myself...
The feeling of complexity comes from not yet understanding that commits are just sets of changes to files. They are then thrown off the scent by new terms like origin clone vs push and pull, merge vs rebase, HEAD increment notation vs other commit hashes.
Once people start with a local understanding of using git diff and git add -p they usually get the epiphany. Then git rebase -i and git reflog take them the rest of the way. Then add the distributed push and fetch/pull concepts.
The feeling of complexity comes from not yet understanding that commits are just sets of changes to files. They are then thrown off the scent by new terms like origin clone vs push and pull, merge vs rebase, HEAD increment notation vs other commit hashes.
Once people start with a local understanding of using git diff and git add -p they usually get the epiphany. Then git rebase -i and git reflog take them the rest of the way. Then add the distributed push and fetch/pull concepts.