For me the value is in diffing, merging and browsing the commit graph. Piecemeal staging can be improved looking at the whole file instead of the window `add -p

For me the value is in diffing, merging and browsing the commit graph. Piecemeal staging can be improved looking at the whole file instead of the window `add -p` shows. But... I'm still primarily a CLI user. I've just configured difftool and mergetool to call up Beyond Compare. git gui and gitk make designers weep, but I've never felt hindered or slowed down in what I want to accomplish with them. I'll try a new GUI tool every now and then, and I haven't found any that make me feel more productive than the CLI augmented by the tools above.