> Every time I hear people saying how much they prefer the git command line is because they never seriously tried to leverage the git features of their IDE. I

> Every time I hear people saying how much they prefer the git command line is because they never seriously tried to leverage the git features of their IDE. I have used IDEs but I still prefer the CLI client. Like with most things in IT, GUIs are great for simple things but the CLI is more expressive and exposes more options. Then once you've spent enough time using the CLI tools it's sometimes more jarring to switch between the GUI and CLI than it is to just use the CLI for simple tasks that could easily be done in the GUI.