You don't have to understand how a carburetor works to drive a car, but you do have to know that "Drive" connects the engine to the wheels.
Git is like driving a manual transmission. In a manual car you have to understand that the clutch disengages the motor from the drive shaft and how the different gears work in general. It's not rocket science and most people can pick it up.
> In a manual car you have to understand that the clutch disengages the motor from the drive shaft and how the different gears work in general.
No, you most definitely don't, that's complete lunacy. The vast majority of (manual) drivers[0] have no idea how things work and they don't give a fuck. Different gears are for "go faster" and "go slower", and the clutch is for "change gear". People learn to do it right because the alternative is to stall or get a horrible grinding sound and pay top bucks to get stuff fixed, not because they understand how things work under the hood.
[0] in countries where it's the norm, not in countries like the US where manual is for nerds and passioned
> Different gears are for "go faster" and "go slower", and the clutch is for "change gear".
Sorry, that's exactly what I meant by "the different gears work in general". You need to understand that underlying model before you can make it work, even if it's only intuitive, and not cerebral.
> the clutch is for "change gear"
That, and it's also "don't stall when I stop".
I think most people understand that it disconnects the engine. I don't think that's as crazy a leap as "understanding the details of how a gearbox works" (which I don't even know, since I've never looked in one).
> You need to understand that underlying model before you can make it work
No, you only need to understand what the final effect is. The vast majority of drivers neither understand nor care that gearbox speeds change the conversion ratio between the engine's rotating speed and the axle's, if you did and had to gear speeds would be labelled by their conversion ratio not 1-6 (and then you'd have to include the axle's conversion ratio in the mix). And I don't doubt that a Git-based gearbox would do exactly that, and that going in reverse would require either using an inverter or would require using a completely separate reverse transmission.
Git is like driving a manual transmission. In a manual car you have to understand that the clutch disengages the motor from the drive shaft and how the different gears work in general. It's not rocket science and most people can pick it up.