I often find GUIs restrictive because they don't lend themselves well to ad-hoc scripting. I also don't use GUI editors, so that may be a part of it. I can see

I often find GUIs restrictive because they don't lend themselves well to ad-hoc scripting. I also don't use GUI editors, so that may be a part of it. I can see how a TUI/GUI for being able to quickly stage things from the UI is useful, but it doesn't make the concept of the index useless on the command line either. Using git from the command line is second nature to me at this point, and the index is a large part of my workflow. When I use git for revision control (as opposed to eg. Subversion. Or anything that doesn't have lightweight branching, something akin to an index, and rebases), it feels like the tool is helping me organize my commits instead of just being a place to shove things after I'm done coding.