I admit the diagrams and struggles the author describes are far past my own usage of git. And like they identify at the end of the article, for truly complex git operations today I use AI. I haven’t rebased manually for a while. Forget rewriting commit messages!

> Companies like Meta have enjoyed in-house systems that run circles around it for almost a decade.

Based on Mercurial… the VCS I enjoyed using.

There is an open source & git compatible version of Meta's VCS: https://sapling-scm.com/