I’m trying to write a helpful reply instead of downvoting. If you use those kind of criteria to determine someone’s knowledge, you’re going to come across as dogmatic, reductionist, etc. I doubt you are really that way, but it’s how it comes across, and it doesn’t make for good discussion. I’d suggest laying out why you think someone’s preference for a gui means they know nothing.

I only use the CLI (because I learned git before GUIs got useable), but my mental representation of branches and commits is *graph*ical, and most of the git user guides and tutorials I see use a graphical representation to communicate git concepts. I imagine it would have been easier to learn git's functionality if I had an interface to git that was closer to my mental representation.

This might seem obvious but have you tried changing your mental representation?

Commits are nothing more than a series of actions to apply.