> My question is why hasn't anyone come along and fixed it? There's been dozens of "replacements"/frontends/guis for git, off the top of my head: gitless, magi

> My question is why hasn't anyone come along and fixed it? There's been dozens of "replacements"/frontends/guis for git, off the top of my head: gitless, magit, tortoise git, gitkraken. Heres a whole mess of em: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Interfaces,_frontends,_and_tools https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Interfaces,_frontends,... > My second question is, if the underlying model is so f*cking elegant, how did it lead to such a confusing interface? I think this is 66% because the operations are on the tree/nodes themselves, and not like, on "versions", branches, or some other skeumorphic abstraction. It's very bare metal. If you know how the command operates on the tree, you know how to conduct the actual action desired. I think the rest is due to cruft/familiarity - once you build that mental model, it works extremely well. So it's vi-like with a steep learning curve and arcane interface, but once you "git good", it's phenomenally productive.