> I find people are religious about being git cli purists and only interacting with it in this black box (the terminal)
Git cli purists are probably cli purists in general, not just for git. And for good reason.
When you work with the cli/terminal, you aren't bound by what the creator of the GUI decided should be built.
> I often suggest git CLI purists to get something like git kraken and just use it as a visual dashboard. Watch what happens when you run git commands. You can see everyone else's remote branches and have a much better idea of what's going on than you can without it.
There are git commands for displaying whatever information you want, capable of drawing nice trees and whatever complete with everybody else's branches.
> It's so easy to create a new branch before I do anything that if I think something might go south, I just hard reset to my previous state (a branch I created right before the operation)
Duh! That's what git is for!
And when you say "It's so easy to create a new branch" I'm genuinely curious to know how you've been creating branches before you discovered the "state of the art GUI tools that change the game".
Git cli purists are probably cli purists in general, not just for git. And for good reason.
When you work with the cli/terminal, you aren't bound by what the creator of the GUI decided should be built.
> I often suggest git CLI purists to get something like git kraken and just use it as a visual dashboard. Watch what happens when you run git commands. You can see everyone else's remote branches and have a much better idea of what's going on than you can without it.
There are git commands for displaying whatever information you want, capable of drawing nice trees and whatever complete with everybody else's branches.
> It's so easy to create a new branch before I do anything that if I think something might go south, I just hard reset to my previous state (a branch I created right before the operation)
Duh! That's what git is for!
And when you say "It's so easy to create a new branch" I'm genuinely curious to know how you've been creating branches before you discovered the "state of the art GUI tools that change the game".