[andrewingram]

I used git at the command line for two years before trying (and later buying) Tower.

I am a very visual person. It gives me greater confidence in what I'm doing when I can see a polished visual overview, it makes me more willing to use powerful features like picking individual lines to commit, to avoid any single commit containing a mixture of use cases.

But I always make sure I know what the GUI is doing on the command line before trusting it to be doing the right thing. I made sure I understood rebasing correctly before setting it to be the default pull behaviour in Tower. Similarly, I never feel comfortable using a one-line deployment script before running through a deployment by hand first.

Any tool that makes our lives easier and less likely to make silly screwups is a good thing in my eyes. It doesn't matter whether that tool is a GUI or a script. I prefer using a GUI for databases too, because the command line is woefully inadequate at letting me grasp the shape of data quickly.