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SmartGit is great. It makes Git completely usable to a novice and still useful to powerusers, it also makes it very easy to visualize the state of your reposit

SmartGit is great. It makes Git completely usable to a novice and still useful to powerusers, it also makes it very easy to visualize the state of your repositories. For the most it hides things like staging, however you still need to understand the git "mental model". I think the biggest problem for people new to git is that it solves problems they don't really have yet. They are solo on their own repo.... they don't see the point of branches, they only really ever need to stage/commit/push all their changes to a remote. So they learn the magic command line incantations until the day it goes wrong somehow, or they need to roll back, or need to start collaborating and they have to dig a bit deeper

duxup 7y ago
I think you are correct, although when working as an individual I think branches are handy for working multiple unfinished features or the good old: "Let me try....oh gawd this turned into a mess!"
- Stratoscope 7y ago
  With SmartGit the lesson to start with is simply to commit, commit, commit. Commit every little change. You don't have to worry about adding to the index, you don't have to worry about branches, just type Ctrl+K, type a message, and Ctrl+Enter to commit. Or select from the menus to do the same thing. You can always go back and add a branch onto any commit. Just right click the commit, select "add branch", and give it a name. You can move branches around by dragging them and immediately see what branches are where. And if you really mess up, click Recyclable Commits, and any commit you thought you lost will be there.