I use the git cli exclusively. The reason for it was Sourcetree. I started with git in 2010 coming from svn and had a hard time to wrap my head around the basic

I use the git cli exclusively. The reason for it was Sourcetree. I started with git in 2010 coming from svn and had a hard time to wrap my head around the basic concepts of staging, commit and push etc. I used sourcetree and the docs and was very confused with the UI because it sometimes contradicted the understandings I got from the docs. So started using it from the cli and never switched back. In the beginning I used the ‘-i’ flag for the ‘git add’ a lot to filter out what files to stage etc. This was mainly because I worked in an unfamiliar project and wasn’t able to write out file paths from memory. That has changed over the years. I use a few custom created aliases + specific Workflows how I go about making changes to a project. I’m not interested in any of the fancy git UIs (sourcetree, tower, fork, kraken) because each tries to simplify git and or would break my workflow. For instance I don’t use Explorer, Finder etc to traverse files. I open a new terminal session and cd through my file system. I have a strict setup which I replicate on the different machines/VMs I use so I know it from memory. I don’t need to switch to a UI tool that knows where all my checkouts are and klick a terminal button to start a session there. I work from the terminal and open Idea, VSCode or vim from the project. The latter is the reason I could not adopt eMacs as it didn’t really work well for me with this kind of workflow. And last. I stopped doing multiple fancy changes all at once in a project that would warrant the use of specialized tools or UIs. If I see that a change gets out of hand I start to formulate base batches on the go. I can create a series of commits and split them up/rebase afterwards. But I don’t Stopp anyone from doing it differently. We are all wired differently and use the given tools how we feel best. Ah also working with a lot of remote headless machines it is nice if you know you way around the cli in general. Or my favorite issue I had the last couple of weeks switching from Nvidia to AMD (X-Server did not start) issues ;) No ui to help to fix this.