Git: beyond the basics

Who this talk is for

This talk is for someone who:

has basic unix command line skills: cd, ls, pwd, echo (bonus points for less and vim).
has had the usual crash course in git: clone, add, commit, push.
only has used git because they had to.
is slow to commit.
has merge anxiety.
writes commit messages like this: "more work", "oopsie", "additional changes", ".".