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0 pointstrevor-e6y ago0 comments

I think that's just your own personal bias on the matter – 99%, really? To me (IMO), Git is something that's inherently visual and not really suited to a CLI, it has nothing to do with not understanding how Git works under the hood.

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Florin_Andrei6y ago· 1 in thread

> Git is something that's inherently visual

It absolutely is. The whole "branch" paradigm evokes topology. The visual structure of the thing you're working with ought to be made clear to you, the user.

If a GUI has trouble when the workflow deviates from normalcy, it's just not powerful enough.

That being said, there will always be users who prefer the command line, and that's totally fine.

Myrmornis6y ago

Although git supports it, one doesn't normally need to use complex branch tree topologies that require visualization.

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