The GUI I use (weirdly called "Git Extensions") does not hide the underlining commands: when you perform an operation it presents you with a dialog that shows t

The GUI I use (weirdly called "Git Extensions") does not hide the underlining commands: when you perform an operation it presents you with a dialog that shows the command line. You can inspect them, copy the command text, or cancel the operation if the command does not look right to you. For some operations it's more that one command, so you are present with more than one dialog. For me it's not just a convenience, but a learning tool about more obscure Git operations and their parameters. Several times when I found the documentation obscure I would just make Git Extensions generate a command, and it helped me to understand a command -- or discover one. Having said that, I find Git command-line interface hard to memorize and not very consistent/logical, so I prefer to use the GUI when possible. And you cannot beat it for partial commits or resets.