I'm one of those folks who will tell people to give the official CLI frontend of git a chance and to try and stick to it. I can assure you it is not out of elitism, but experience. I've tried the many third party GUI frontends, and always got myself into bigger trouble down the line in the end, nor did they bring any of the revelatory boosts in insight they claimed they would. And of course, they're all a little different from one another, so migrating between them is an additional chore.
Then of course it's possible I didn't give the many GUI frontends enough of a chance. Such is life, it's a resource limited game. Principally, I justify my position with the argument that the many GUIs will try to translate git into something visual by adding their own designs, and this can prove additionally misleading and difficult, if git wasn't rough enough already.
The only GUI bits I use for git are editor integrations such as the official one in VS Code, and only when I know it's adequate. Which you can only know if you know what's going on in the background.
Then of course it's possible I didn't give the many GUI frontends enough of a chance. Such is life, it's a resource limited game. Principally, I justify my position with the argument that the many GUIs will try to translate git into something visual by adding their own designs, and this can prove additionally misleading and difficult, if git wasn't rough enough already.
The only GUI bits I use for git are editor integrations such as the official one in VS Code, and only when I know it's adequate. Which you can only know if you know what's going on in the background.