Comment by nlawalker

I've become a big fan of Git Extensions. I like that it doesn't try to layer its own agenda over the Git workflow, shows all the console input/output it uses, and warns me when I'm about to do something stupid, but overall I like it for the same 3 reasons that I like most GUIs:

- It's a live dashboard. A GUI gives me live, persistent information organized well on the screen. I appreciate the power of the CLI for accomplishing tasks, but I've never understood how people prefer it when it comes to simply viewing and understanding the state of something. I don't see why I'd want to run a bunch of commands to see stuff scroll by in my format-constrained terminal when I can have a live, all-up view of multiple aspects of a repo all at once, with relevant, context-sensitive commands on whatever I click on.

- It's discoverable. Most of what I've learned about git has been through clicking around in Git Extensions.

- The structure and organization of the UI helps me to understand how git operates. When I open the "Pull" dialog, for example, the way the controls in the UI are grouped and the kinds of controls that are used help me logically understand what "Pull" can do.