[microcolonel]

I honestly have no idea why people would want to have to click buttons for this stuff.

The one exception in my case is 3-way merges. I handle those in Meld, which I find to be better suited than any of the integrated threesome tools in these git GUIs.

Even that I could probably do better in emacs if I set it up.

[vdfs]

In my situation I use gitg to add changes by chunks or lines, I think that's much more faster than cli. But gitg is hard to compile on Ubuntu lts if you want newer versions, I wonder if there is a good alternative?

[microcolonel]

I generally do that sort of thing(staging/destaging lines and chunks) in my editor. If I could shift the merge tool stuff into my editor quickly I would do that as well. The reason is that it reduces context switching and difference between environments: sure, I could spend hours making the fonts, colours, and keybindings the same between the git gui and my editor; I could get really good at switching to the window; etc. But even a slightly worse version of it in the editor is going to be way less work.

At least, that's how I see it.

Also, I'm sure there must be a PPA or something for gitg on Ubuntu, if you really like the tool.

[Klasiaster]

There are Packages in Debian experimental