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by greyman 3427 days ago
> but the UI is atrociously complicated

Linus himself admitted that he isnt good at UI. Anyway, I think git just wasnt designed to be used directly, but via another UI. For example, I use it within Visual Studio Code, and that covers about 90 percent of usecases, and then Git Extensions can take care of almost everything else. Sometimes cli is needed, though.

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Git Extensions was a fantastic project back when the idea of Microsoft supporting Git would seemed impossible. It made my life better everyday when I was a C# developer. These days, I use the Git CLI on Windows, but VS integration with Git seems good, so I haven't felt the need to install Git Extensions.

I've still not yet seen a stand-alone GUI for Git that is better than the one that ships with Git Extensions, though.