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> Git as a version control system is great, but it desperately needs an "apt style" revamp.
I'd say that this is one of the reasons for why many prefer to use either integrations with their IDE, or graphical tools like SourceTree, GitKraken or even something more basic like Git Cola.
Personally, I also fall into this camp: and if I need to do something "fancy", then it's quite likely that I've diverged from the usual "happy path" too far and should rethink my approach (and if necessary, then just drop down to CLI after some googling). Of course, there are various camps in regards to all of this, but being able to stage/unstage individual code chunks/blocks and spread out/group changes that have already been done in files over multiple commits feels like a nice quality of life improvement. Plus, the diffs that something like the JetBrains IDEs show you, as well as the ability to look at the history for a particular selection is also nice.
Then again, there are also many who don't rebase their branches, or even don't select squashing merge commits in whatever UI they might use (e.g. using GitLab/GitHub for their code review functionality and other features), which some might dislike for any number of reasons. I guess that just shows that there are many different workflows and people flock to whatever they feel comfortable with (or whatever their org/team mandates).
As for the actual CLI, in general there are few programs out there that actually feel good and usable to me, one of which is the Docker CLI (for the most part). I actually compared its discoverability/usability to something like tar previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29339018
Something like Typer actually let's you create your own interfaces like that, though the new formatting is a bit curious: https://typer.tiangolo.com/
That said, I wish we had more TUI software as well, such as https://k9scli.io/ or even https://github.com/bcicen/ctop
> Git as a version control system is great, but it desperately needs an "apt style" revamp.
I'd say that this is one of the reasons for why many prefer to use either integrations with their IDE, or graphical tools like SourceTree, GitKraken or even something more basic like Git Cola.
Personally, I also fall into this camp: and if I need to do something "fancy", then it's quite likely that I've diverged from the usual "happy path" too far and should rethink my approach (and if necessary, then just drop down to CLI after some googling). Of course, there are various camps in regards to all of this, but being able to stage/unstage individual code chunks/blocks and spread out/group changes that have already been done in files over multiple commits feels like a nice quality of life improvement. Plus, the diffs that something like the JetBrains IDEs show you, as well as the ability to look at the history for a particular selection is also nice.
Then again, there are also many who don't rebase their branches, or even don't select squashing merge commits in whatever UI they might use (e.g. using GitLab/GitHub for their code review functionality and other features), which some might dislike for any number of reasons. I guess that just shows that there are many different workflows and people flock to whatever they feel comfortable with (or whatever their org/team mandates).
As for the actual CLI, in general there are few programs out there that actually feel good and usable to me, one of which is the Docker CLI (for the most part). I actually compared its discoverability/usability to something like tar previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29339018
Something like Typer actually let's you create your own interfaces like that, though the new formatting is a bit curious: https://typer.tiangolo.com/
That said, I wish we had more TUI software as well, such as https://k9scli.io/ or even https://github.com/bcicen/ctop
> Git as a version control system is great, but it desperately needs an "apt style" revamp.
I'd say that this is one of the reasons for why many prefer to use either integrations with their IDE, or graphical tools like SourceTree, GitKraken or even something more basic like Git Cola.
Personally, I also fall into this camp: and if I need to do something "fancy", then it's quite likely that I've diverged from the usual "happy path" too far and should rethink my approach (and if necessary, then just drop down to CLI after some googling). Of course, there are various camps in regards to all of this, but being able to stage/unstage individual code chunks/blocks and spread out/group changes that have already been done in files over multiple commits feels like a nice quality of life improvement. Plus, the diffs that something like the JetBrains IDEs show you, as well as the ability to look at the history for a particular selection is also nice.
Then again, there are also many who don't rebase their branches, or even don't select squashing merge commits in whatever UI they might use (e.g. using GitLab/GitHub for their code review functionality and other features), which some might dislike for any number of reasons. I guess that just shows that there are many different workflows and people flock to whatever they feel comfortable with (or whatever their org/team mandates).
As for the actual CLI, in general there are few programs out there that actually feel good and usable to me, one of which is the Docker CLI (for the most part). I actually compared its discoverability/usability to something like tar previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29339018
Something like Typer actually let's you create your own interfaces like that, though the new formatting is a bit curious: https://typer.tiangolo.com/
That said, I wish we had more TUI software as well, such as https://k9scli.io/ or even https://github.com/bcicen/ctop
For people who want Git's data model but a better CLI, check out https://github.com/martinvonz/jj. It's a more Mercurial-like CLI but you can use it with existing Git repos. It also includes undo functionality, anonymous branches and other nice features.