I am also pleasently surprised by this initiative. I consider myself an advanced git user so I am not sure I would use it myself, because my brain is hardwired

I am also pleasently surprised by this initiative. I consider myself an advanced git user so I am not sure I would use it myself, because my brain is hardwired to git's wicked commandline interface now. There is little that surprises me in git nowadays. I am used to give out simple "the 10 git commands you will ever need" tutorials to people, but it's true that it is confusing for people, even with that. gitless takes out significant confusion out of the daily grind of using git, so much that I may end up recommending it instead of git itself, especialy since they are interoperable. What I would love to see would be to have those commands percolate back into git itself. git's usability has improved significantly since it started, and while this project shows there's still a lot that can be improved, history has shown us that git can be improved. track, untrack, history, switch, resolve, publish, init's remote argument, all those could be added as commands into git and equivalent commands could be deprecated or just kept for the hardcores like me that don't want to be bothered learning a new simpler interface. Unfortunately, given the reaction on the mailing list, I am thinking this will not/never happen and gitless will remain a friendly fork: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=147527432403442&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=git&m=147527432403442&w=2