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by bloopernova 2595 days ago
Has there been any efforts to add a wrapper around git's commands to make a more friendly command line UI?

I've tried maybe 3 different GUIs for git and none of them really seemed to help that much. However my usage of git is pretty basic, with branches and tags being about as complex as I get.

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There have been many attempts. I liked easygit a lot (seems to be unmaintained now: https://people.gnome.org/~newren/eg/documentation/). It had really nice docu. It took me a while to memorize all the native git replacements for `eg revert`. Gitless looks like it could fit your needs (https://gitless.com/).

The problem is, in the end, you'll still need to know the original git commands with all their quirks in addition to the easier commands, because that's what you'll find on stackoverflow or when asking colleagues or inside of error messages. And those command names will either clash with the names used in plain git or are different partially-overlapping concepts (`git reset` is the worst offender here). So eventually you'll need to memorize twice as many things.