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What is the use case for 'seeing all information at once'. Normally you want to see something specific, in which case a terminal allows you to see that specific
by blux 6y ago
What is the use case for 'seeing all information at once'. Normally you want to see something specific, in which case a terminal allows you to see that specific information faster than a GUI.
- laszlokorte 6y agoIf all information is already on the screen I am faster moving my eyes to the spot of interest than typing the command (or even a single letter alias). I guess you would not want to edit a text file of which you could only see a single line at a time.
- konart 6y ago>What is the use case for 'seeing all information at once'. Projects can be messy and sometime you really need a bird's view of what's going on with all those branches\merges etc.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoGUI also makes it easy to cross-reference between branches, automatically pull submodules, see/do all sorts of things without keeping crufty cli args in your head. I mean, the latter is huge. I felt a certain bravado in uni for always using the cli that I see among other HNers. As I get older, I couldn't give less of a damn. Scrolling manpages to find an re-remember the unintuitive cli arg I need vs just clicking a button that does it? I prefer the latter. The former is always available if I need it. The few times I have to drop into cli git are the things I always have to look up anyways, like git-reflog.