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This reminds me a lot of Gitkraken. Vast majority of the time git cli is enough, but for that rare situation when an operation is too complex, the gui was very convenient. Shame they nickel and dime you on everything now

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Funny. I have the opposite experience with git. Use GUI for simple tasks and drop to CLI when it’s complicated or when something goes wrong.

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Same. I mostly use sourcetree to do quick self-reviews and to discard lines or hunks before a commit.

But I’ve also grown very weary of having to dig people out of git messes they’ve made with sourcetree and the likes.

Visual clients aren’t to blame for that, but they contribute. So many times I’ve asked “and what git commands did that run?” only to receive a dumb stare as a reply.

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Not entirely unexpected. If you don’t know what you’re doing, a GUI will only accelerate the path between you and the wrong result, because these tend to abstract things too much at times

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I found SourceTree to be especially bad at this. For the inexperienced, I think Fork is a lot better. It also helps that you can inspect the commands that were executed by it.

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