Hill starts are part of the driving test in many countries and if you don't get it, you don't drive.

Once you get the biting point, the car should not roll back and you can then pull away.
In the UK, they teach you to use the handbrake and only release when you have the biting point and your foot on the gas.

In other countries, they explicitly instructed you not to use the parking brake which requires a little more finesse.

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With best regards

Al

Learned to drive in a '57 Bug in very hilly Cincinnati. We were not allowed to drive the car on the streets until we could get the car out of the back yard. This meant getting it up a curved ramp from basement garage around to front yard. That hand brake between the seats sure made that task a lot better for a new driver. My first MB was a '61 190D with a hand brake under the dash. Not nearly as friendly on hills as the one in the Bug, but certainly better than an 'on or off' type so often seen these days.

Would agree that the best way to learn is practice, practice, practice, and even starting out in a flat parking lot is a useful experience.

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1961 190Db retired
1968 220D/8 325,000
1983 300D 164,150

I don't use the parking brake. When the light turns green, I just quickly move my foot off the brake and unto the accelerator while letting the clutch out to the friction zone. Once I'm moving I continue adding accelerator input while engaging the clutch the rest of the way. This took quite a bit of practice and was a lot harder when I used to drive a Suzuki Samurai.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.