Finally gave this a proper read. It's a bit disappointing indeed. Besides removing the index (which, as other commenters have pointed out, is questionable), the

Finally gave this a proper read. It's a bit disappointing indeed. Besides removing the index (which, as other commenters have pointed out, is questionable), there is one BIG change from Git to be noted: You can always switch branches, without losing your working directory changes. In the common case, this amounts to automatic stashing and unstashing, enabling you to quickly move around to an alternative repository state to check something out (with real git, this is too annoying and I resort to browsing the history on github more often than not). The second case illustrated in the comparison section is switching branches during a rebase, which git doesn't support without aborting the rebase. My recommendation: if that seems like a killer feature to you, use gitless. Otherwise, the slight simplification of commands isn't worth adding a layer on top of git.