Yeah, something along these lines is how I've explained it to co-workers as well. Tossing in "git log --all --oneline --decorate --graph" so they can actually see the graph also helps a lot.
is even better. Most people don't work in front of VT100s today.
Actually I work most of the day remotely in `screen` on my office machine. But in case of complicated/confusing/buggy history/branching I fetch for the repo so I can run gitk locally.
