> When you poke at your repo on the command line, you never get to see it as a unified whole. All you can do is try a command, see what it prints out, and try t

> When you poke at your repo on the command line, you never get to see it as a unified whole. All you can do is try a command, see what it prints out, and try to make a mental model of what this all means. Or simply learn to use the git commands right. Then it shows you everything the UI tool would show. I recommend everybody adding this to their ~/.gitconfig [alias] lol = log --oneline --graph --decorate lola = log --oneline --graph --decorate --all lols = log --oneline --graph --decorate --all --max-count=10 Then you can simply do a `git lol` or `git lola` to get the same result as your fancy UI is showing you. And it also works via ssh. If you've manually typed that alias in a few times you will also remember it and have it readily available when you ssh into a customer server etc.