> A good GUI is absolutely instrumental to understanding Git, and it lets you avoid Git's terrible CLI for as long as possible. Depends on the user. If they a

> A good GUI is absolutely instrumental to understanding Git, and it lets you avoid Git's terrible CLI for as long as possible. Depends on the user. If they are already an active user of the Terminal, they should be able to learn the git cli without ever touching a GUI. The git cli has some warts for sure, and some weird inconsistencies. But with a bit of practice and some good documents about the correct mental model to have, you get used to it and you learn to use it very effectively.