Comment by bsandert

Git only started really clicking with me when I started thinking of most of my actions as graph building and traversals. It also helps to realize that for most intents and purposes, commits in git are immutable and "destructive" actions such as rebase don't _actually_ rewrite history, but rather create a new path in the graph and moves your branch pointer to it, leaving all previous commits intact (though potentially hard to reach and subject to garbage collection).