Agreed, part of why I love the integrated terminal in VS Code... mostly doing git, node and npm commands while working on my projects. About the most GUI I use, is the active diff tool in VS Code. But that's not CLI based. I've also tried a few gui tools for git, and none seem to be quite as easy as just using the CLI for it.

Probably the cli that I find the most useful beyond git that I use regularly is docker... It's pretty useful if you aren't in a linux environment but need to build something in one... In my node lambda builds, I'll do something like:

    docker -i -v "${PWD}/dist":/app -w /app node:6.10 npm i

Which is usually enough to give me something I can zip and upload for use in a lambda... Though, like git, if I'm doing something not usual, I often wind up having to google it. Like anything in git more complicated than a simple rebase or add/commit/push.