The opposite is true for me. I use git/hg UIs almost exclusively for visualizing the repository history, but find that they are too cumbersome for modifying the

The opposite is true for me. I use git/hg UIs almost exclusively for visualizing the repository history, but find that they are too cumbersome for modifying the repository. If you need any non-standard options, they're generally faster to type (especially if you have decent command line completion), and standard commands I have aliased so that they are usually faster, too (if they aren't already fast to type).