JetBrains IDEs, I don't remember the last time I used the CLI.
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I don't understand git anyway
Well, you learn four commands and hope for the best.
fetch, reset --hard, checkout -b and cherry-pick?
:-D
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I really never understood why one would need a GUI for git except for visualizing branches.
I feel like I'm crazy seeing so many people using clicky buttons for tracking files. I need like 4 commands for 95% of what I do and the rest you look up.
You're already programming! Just learn the tool!
And now there's a github CLI tool? I hate to beat a dead horse but Microsoft pushing their extended version of an open source tool/protocol is literally the second step of their mantra.
knowing how to program doesn't mean u need to do things the hard way.
heck the whole point of programming is to make things easier and faster.
FWIW not everyone using source control is a programmer. I've seen artists in game dev using GUI tools to pull new changes and push their assets.
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Do you use the command line for everything? Do you edit with vim, view diffs with git diff, browse the web with links or lynx?
GUIs are useful tools. I’m happy with VSCode’s git integration. It’s just what I need for basic stuff like staging files and committing. I use the CLI whenever I want to do something like rebasing because I can type that command faster than I can figure out the GUI, but it would be stupid to artificially force myself to use the CLI for everything because of some kind of principal.
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I primarily use GitHub CLI to interact with the GitHub API, not Git. I don't really see it as an extension of the Git CLI, which I use much more frequently. Everything you can do with it can also be done through their REST API.
I use it for things that aren't really git features, like:
Syncing repository admin, pull request, and branch control settings across multiple repositories
Checking the status of self-hosted actions runners
Creating pull requests, auto-approving them
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CLI
Though I will admit it took me a while to get there
git add -i is where the true magic begins
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Learning git will give you the tools to work on projects on any git platform. It doesn't matter if I'm in Forgejo, Gitlab, or Github.
And it will find you the most answers online in case you have a git related question.
GitHub desktop Stan here. Been a software engineer for over a decade and still love my UI tools. GitHub desktop is good enough 99% of the time.
Any windows screenshots?
(Fork is also an awful name in terms of searching for it btw)
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I'd love to like the desktop app, but I just don't understand what it's doing under the hood when I click a button. When I click an icon, is it syncing my changes up as it pulls down, it just pulling down? I guess point and click is more scary to me when prod is on the line.
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Vscode plugins?
Sublime Merge, for most items in the UI it tells you the git command it will use
GitKraken!
using LazyGit in tmux has changed my workflow.
instead of:
git add . git commit -m 'foo' fg
i just:
g ac foo q
and it displays everything neatly
Edit: apparently greater/less than symbols dont render properly on lemmy. so imagine a few (CR)'s and (C-b)'s sprinkled in
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I'd use Desktop if it worked, unfortunately recently it decided that I don't have read/write access to a repo I'm working on. Works fine in git CLI so idk what the problem there is.
Why are they even on the same bus?
GitLens?
GitHub Desktop is literally "Baby's first git GUI".
Vim Fugitive
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