> Why hasn't someone who knows git created a better porcelain yet? Probably because once you know git well enough you don't want to give up any of it's native p

> Why hasn't someone who knows git created a better porcelain yet? Probably because once you know git well enough you don't want to give up any of it's native power just to satisfy some noob's anxiety attack. They exist. gitx, magit, etc... are all great tools. Most people who use it for any length of time seem to be just fine with it, though. I can recognize a few things as... silly (e.g. checkout), but not so much as to try to introduce a new verb and redefine the semantics just to come up with a better separation when I already know what I'm doing with the tool. I certainly don't have enough of a problem to write an entirely new interface when the existing one continues to get incrementally better. Similarly vi and emacs are both great editors whose power cannot be harnessed by those who don't spend time trying to learn them. The vested are less affected by idiosyncrasies.