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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Every time I mentor a dev on using git they insist so much on using some GUI. Even ones who are "proficient" take way longer to do any action than I can with cli. I had one dev who came from SVN land try and convince me that TortoiseGit was the only way to go

I died a little that day, and I never won her over to command line despite her coming to me kinda regularly to un-fuck her repository (still one of the best engineers I ever worked with and I honestly miss her... Just not her source control antics)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

If I want to commit a selection of files, but not others, then I'm clicking boxes not typing filenames.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

So I’m normally a command line fan and have used git there. But I’m also using sublimerge and honestly I find it fantastic for untangling a bunch of changes that need to be in several commits; being able to quickly scroll through all the changed files, expand & collapse the diffs, select files, hunks, and lines directly in the gui for staging, etc. I can’t see that being any faster / easier on the command line.

[–] Antiproton 0 points 2 hours ago

The difference in speed is familiarity, not some inherent efficiency gain by typing commands into the cli.