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0 pointsknallfrosch2y ago0 comments

Although I understand all these commands and can use them, it's a typical Linux tool. Sure, if you understand the internals you can use the tools and the horrendous GUIs that are nothing more than a thin layer of paint.

But a truly user-centric tool would actually help you with something like

"I want to work on a new Feature A" "I want to continue working on Feature B" "I want my changes in the software/product" "I want to review a pull request (haha!) locally, in order to have IDE support." "I did an oopsie and need to go back."

Imagine navigating to a website by specifing its hash, or seeing changes to a PowerPoint file using "git status" and seeing "++slide1.pp". It would be terrible.

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seanw4442y ago

It's a low-level tool. Imagine writing code with Microsoft Word. There are layers on top of Git that give you more of what you're looking for.

- https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui

- https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

- https://magit.vc/

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