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Mon 09 Jan 2023

Where are my Git UI features from the future?

The Git version control system has been causing us misery for 15+ years. Since its inception, a thousand people have tried to make new clients for Git to improve usability.

But practically everyone has focused on providing a pretty facade to do more or less the same operations as Git on the command-line — as if Git’s command-line interface were already the pinnacle of usability.

No one bothers to consider: what are the workflows that people actually want to do? What are the features that would make those workflows easier? So instead we get clients which think that git rebase -i as the best possible way to reword a commit message, or edit an old commit, or split a commit, or even worth exposing in the UI.

Source: Where are my Git UI features from the future?, an article by Waleed Khan.