There was discussion about this about three months ago, when this feature was first announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16212234 https://news.ycomb

There was discussion about this about three months ago, when this feature was first announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16212234 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16212234 The tl;dr seems to be that in certain environments there's a big benefit to having the ability to browse a codebase and make a quick and simple edit without having to deal with the overhead of git.