I've always found that a good Git user interface goes a long way to understand what is really going on. The commit graph and the conflict resolution UIs are mos

I've always found that a good Git user interface goes a long way to understand what is really going on. The commit graph and the conflict resolution UIs are most important. The right choice is very personal - I've found understanding the contents of a repo purely on the terminal to be torture, even though I issue most commands from there.