And, unfortunately, the CLI is git’s greatest strength as well. Git was designed for the command line only truly flourishes there, for advanced workflows. The G

And, unfortunately, the CLI is git’s greatest strength as well. Git was designed for the command line only truly flourishes there, for advanced workflows. The GUI tools that wrap git, and web interfaces like github, only provide access to a subset of what git can do. It’d be interesting to see what a good redesign might look like. I do think some of the command names and command flags could be superficially updated/renamed/moved and provide a meaningful impact on git’s usability and learning curve. I’m curious though about whether the conceptual part of git is the primary source of difficulty, whether git is fundamentally a little hard to learn, because it’s fundamentally a little bit complex. If that’s the case, a rebuild might not help, there might not exist the kind of “sane ground” to build on that you hope for.