[Qwertious]

Writing a new git GUI doesn't solve the problem, since you need people to adopt it before it's widely installed as default on most OSes by default, and until then you'd probably need to learn the old interface anyway.

IIRC there have been various papers on Git's crappy UI and at least one two rewrites (of the interface). Gitless is the name of one.

Oh, I forgot the most important thingof all: integration with tooling! QtCreator has support and shortcuts for Git with its commands, but not Gitless.

[bntyhntr]

I contributed inconsequential things to Gitless for a very short amount of time years ago. One of the things that I really liked that I ended up rewriting at home was better highlighting, eg inside-the-line level highlighting like github etc. Also maybe it had native support for vertical split? Either way my at-home added that. No idea if that's still in gitless or if anyone else feels that way, but if I'm gonna live the cli life may as well make diffs comfortable for myself.