I ask because I like console, but at the same time have difficulties remembering all the commands. I’d like to try a GUI that is comfortable to use with only a keyboard.
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  • variouslegumes
    1·
    1 year ago

    The CLI and probably other more advanced guis are going to give you the option to:

    • bisect: very useful for debugging. Like definitely check it out.
    • rebase: excellent for clean commits. I use it all the time to squash commits together
    • diff arbitrary branches and commits. Super useful for debugging.
    • cherry pick: useful to apply a commit from a different branch or remote
    • Apply: I use it to pass around patches for things for testing / debugging.

    That’s just off the top of my head and also stuff that you can learn on the job. Good to know it exists though. I still use a “gui” (fugitive for vim) for simple tasks, like staging files 🙂

    • ascense@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      For me, I don’t think I could survive without git stash, I use it daily for various reasons (e.g. for validating a small bug fix, git stash & git stash pop lets me attempt to reproduce the issue both with and without a correction). The one downside with the CLI stash command is that it’s very easy to forget things in stash though, but I don’t think GUIs generally support stashing?

      Another one I find myself doing quite often is git checkout BRANCH – PATH, to pull specific versions of files between branches.