[adimitrov]

I would like to say that not all git front ends are like that. I used to be a CLI only user, but now you can pry magit from my cold, dead hands. It's very close to the command line in what it does, it's very easy to see what exactly it does, and where it abstracts from git commands, it does so while following Git's mental model very well.

It has great discoverability while at the same time being an amazingly streamlined power user tool.

In other words, there can be great git front ends. It's just that most of them suck, usually because of a desire to dumb down the git UI. If you don't do that, and accept Git's complexity it can work out great.

[mplanchard]

I’ll second this and note that the discoverability of magit has helped me learn about features of git I didn’t even know existed, while simultaneously making them super easy to work with. Worktrees is the particular example that springs to mind.

It also helps to provide sane defaults, for example -f being force-push-with-lease instead of a regular force push when pushing.

[celeritascelery]

The thing I love about magit is that it teaches you how git works instead of trying to hide it from you.