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Re:A Git catastrophe cleaned up by nine_k on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @10:43AM (#13229928)
The UI story of Hg is much better than Git's. The conceptual model of Git looks superior, though: it's more general and more orthogonal.

I wish some well thought-out front-end to Git became hugely popular and eventually standard. I mean, including the CLI. Git even has a "plumbing mode" to interact with other programs more easily.

But doing that is hard work.

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Re:A Git catastrophe cleaned up by rekado on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @01:51PM (#13231581)
Although I'm quite familiar with git on the command line, I'm using git mostly through magit[1] for Emacs. It's a very functional and discoverable user interface.

[1]: https://magit.vc/

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Re:A Git catastrophe cleaned up by nine_k on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @01:55PM (#13231611)
Same here! Magit is brilliant.

Emacs is a somehow heavyweight frontend for a VCS, though. OTOH it can be considered a GUI client (and comes with a nice built-in editor).

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