While I'm perfectly happy with the stock git porcelein commands (and generally don't like any attempts at simplifying them, including gui tools) other developer

While I'm perfectly happy with the stock git porcelein commands (and generally don't like any attempts at simplifying them, including gui tools) other developers having a different workflow isn't the reason. I think having shortcuts and wrappers like the above is fine if you have a good understanding of the underlying data structure you're manipulating. You're only going to run into problems if you treat these commands as magic and just hope they work.