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Discussion on: The IDE - The beginner's trap !

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Sai Chimata • Edited

Frankly, git - being an implementation of an acyclic directed graph - is made for GUIs The git CLI is useful for shell scripting, but for everyday use by humans, GUIs are far better. The reason why they get a bad rep I think is that features of the CLI are often left out of GUI implementations, the scripting they perform underneath is sometimes buggy, and the UX design of GUIs is lacking. SourceTree has an especially bad GUI for cherry-picking and at one point had a bug where the merge flag wouldn't be removed when aborting a merge. I often feel like a lot of these problems could be solved if someone created a GUI on top of the actual git source code rather than just having the GUI manipulate the CLI behind the scenes.