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dinckelman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This reminds me a lot of Gitkraken. Vast majority of the time git cli is enough, but for that rare situation when an operation is too complex, the gui was very convenient. Shame they nickel and dime you on everything now
technom@programming.dev 9 months ago
Funny. I have the opposite experience with git. Use GUI for simple tasks and drop to CLI when it’s complicated or something went wrong.
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Same. I’ve also grown very weary of having to dig people out of git messes they’ve made with sourcetree and the likes.
Visual clients aren’t to blame for that, but they contribute. So many times I’ve asked “and what git commands did that run?” only to receive a dumb state as a reply.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not entirely unexpected. If you don’t know what you’re doing, a GUI will only accelerate the path between you and the wrong result, because these tend to abstract things too much at times
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Agreed. I’ve been trying to explain to someone recently why rebasing and force pushing their feature branch has no benefit when we use a squash commit strategy for merging to main.
Again, tools are not blame, but when combined with a lack of understanding and accumulated “git dogma”, it can be quite disheartening.
pycorax@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I found SourceTree to be especially bad at this. For the inexperienced, I think Fork is a lot better. It also helps that you can inspect the commands that were executed by it.