i use a gui for two things: 1. interactive staging and committing of only part of a local change. git-cola is way better than the command line flow for this 2

i use a gui for two things: 1. interactive staging and committing of only part of a local change. git-cola is way better than the command line flow for this 2. gitk's tree viewing and filtering options are nice. i usually end up just using tig for speed of opening, but if there's a large set of changes i want to navigate through i launch gitk. also it's the easiest way i've found to branch at a particular commit.