[jammycakes]

My problem isn't with this article specifically. In fact I'll probably find it quite useful myself: it's one of the clearest presentations of Git's internals that I've seen so far. I personally have no problem with the CLI tools either: I myself use PowerShell (with Posh-Git), Git Bash, vim, you name it, and for most things I actually prefer it.

But the fact of the matter is that the Git community is churning out articles such as this one left, right and centre, while ones at a more readily accessible level are being neglected, and therein lies the problem. While there are many, many people who do not have any problems with the command line tools, there are also many, many people who do -- especially in the Windows and .NET world. The fact that we have a glut of command-line focused low-level Git tutorials and a dearth of more readily accessible ones, combined with the common attitude in the Gitosphere of "if you're using GUI tools you're doing it wrong," paints a picture of Git to people such as these of an ecosystem that is elitist, arrogant and user-hostile.

It's nothing to do with the kind of article I'd like to read. It's everything to do with bad marketing.