Comment by weaksauce

I mean you intentionally chose the most basic of the queries and translated them into different git gui commands.

    SELECT name, COUNT(name) AS commit_num FROM commits GROUP BY name ORDER BY commit_num DESC LIMIT 10

something like that is more complex and less easily gleaned by the git gui. or something else that's dead simple to remember how to do in sql vs probably having to open up the git manpages or cobble some script together to do:

   SELECT name, commit_count FROM branches WHERE commit_count BETWEEN 0 .. 10