Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git

Re:Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git by Noumenon72 on Saturday August 04, 2018 @10:48PM (#17689424)

Do you view that as in any way acceptable for a UI? All of these things are ultra-common operations. If Outlook were written this way, you'd have to type

    git inbox --full-conversation -next

to read an email, and read it in less.

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Re:Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git by nordsieck on Saturday August 04, 2018 @11:28PM (#17689511)

> Do you view that as in any way acceptable for a UI?

The reason git is great as a console program is because the fundamental underlying problem you're trying to solve (graph manipulation) is complex. Graphical UIs only work for simple problems.

I think most people would like a simple graphical UI, but no one has been able to create one that has the same power as the textual one.

This is akin to the reason people don't use visual programming languages.

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Re:Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git by mehrdadn on Sunday August 05, 2018 @12:31AM (#17689674)

> The reason git is great as a console program is because the fundamental underlying problem you're trying to solve (graph manipulation) is complex. Graphical UIs only work for simple problems.

Is this meant to be ironic? Everything is literally the opposite of what you said. The entire reason why people make programs like the one you see here is literally that git sucks as a console program, making tasks that are inherently simple (and demonstrably so with a GUI like TortoiseGit) much harder on the command line.

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