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I think
gitis the obvious choice, both in ergonomics and flexibility (custom commands). But maybe I'm just using it so much I don't recognize the sharp edges as much anymore.Nah. I used to think that GUI git clients were The Way. But they all fall short, especially when the ***slightest ***thing goes sideways. Once you get your head around the paradigm, the git CLI is how you get real shit done and quickly. If anything, the GUI clients are all sharp edges and half-measures; the only reason I pull out a GUI client is to get a visual on all the branches in progress/already merged.
I'm a huge Emacs user and while I love some of the convenience features (editing the rebase-history,
smerge-vc-next-conflict, etc.), but I rarely usemagit, one of Emacs' killer features, because I just still prefer the CLI over it. I usually know exactly what I want to do and menus, popups and hotkeys, no matter how good they are, just slow me down.How does pressing s to stage, cc to commit, pp to push slow you down in contrast to git add file, git commit -m etc?
Probably. Other people disagree.
That article doesn't actually criticize the structure of
git's CLI, just the way the application operates and the philosophy behind it.fossil's CLI actually seems to take a lot of inspiration from git, except it's way less complex, because fossil doesn't "need" that complexity (i.e. can't do it).From a cursory reading, I disagree with most philosophical points made. Many of the scenarios and user testimony are complete nothing-burgers. I haven't tried it for any length of time, but I think I prefer a fast, optimized, flexible tool over an integrated everything-but-the-kitchen-sink opinionated kind of thing that forces you into doing things their way or the highway, no matter how good it actually is. But as OP said, this is about the CLI, not the applications.
Given your comments, you clearly don't know or understand the tool, but I won't elaborate further.
It smelled like an easily recognizable mentality, and your last comment just confirms that for me. I've seen it elsewhere and I try to stay away from it where I can. But I wish you luck and joy using your chosen set of tools though. It's great there are alternatives for everything in FOSS.