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by Aozora7 1438 days ago
I find git reasonably understandable as long as you are using a GUI. When you have a GUI, every action you take provides you visual feedback, so it's way easier to understand the purposes of merges, rebeases, stashes, and resets. My understanding of git workflow greatly improved thanks to it.
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c7DJTLrn 1438 days ago
On the contrary, I've met plenty of people who struggle along with a GUI because they don't want to learn the CLI. They mash fetch and pull rhymthically hoping it will do what they want with no clue what it's really doing underneath. Eventually, they give up, nuke the repo and reclone it. Most CLI users I've met are at least competent at using git.
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Aozora7 1437 days ago
I have the opposite experience, the CLI users I see pretty much never use anything besides commit, push and pull, while GUI users tend to use more advanced commands since they can actually see what they do.
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IshKebab 1438 days ago
I completely agree. A GUI also lets you avoid the terrible CLI. Plus the commit graph is a visual thing. It makes sense to view it in a GUI.

Definitely the best way to learn.

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