Take a look at GitHub desktop (https://desktop.github.com/ https://desktop.github.com/) I think it would be better to just have a simpler GUI for a VCS that lo

Take a look at GitHub desktop (https://desktop.github.com/ https://desktop.github.com/) I think it would be better to just have a simpler GUI for a VCS that looks and feels more like an email client. Commits would show up as a list like email summaries and opening them up would maybe show the full diff. Branches would show up as a an email thread/conversation. Maybe extra logging details like "so and so has seen your commit" or "person A resolved a conflict here's the conflict state and how they merged it". Files involved in the commit would look like they are attachments and "downloading" the attachment would really just open the file at that commit. ...Searching for stuff is probably important to your workflow? ...I'm not the target market, but I get it. I hate email based workflows, and I could send a couple of email critiques too ;) I think this would work best with those working on smaller projects with maybe one or two other collaborators that do not make changes at the same time. I make changes, other person looks at the changes, maybe makes some corrections and sends it back. Maybe there are some people that just want to be notified of updates. I want to say that your target user's primary responsibility isn't programming. Maybe a designer, sysadmin, or researcher? ...Someone who writes a few scripts here or there.