I never really felt a need to use a GUI client for Git. I think they all hinder understanding of Git instead of helping. However I use Tig (console client) ex

I never really felt a need to use a GUI client for Git. I think they all hinder understanding of Git instead of helping. However I use Tig (console client) extensively for read-only Git operations. For everything else, there is Magit (Emacs Git client).