Picturing Git: Conceptions and Misconceptions

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Gl commit -p allows you to interactively commit parts of files. Gl doesn't take any abilities away (it's just git under the hood after all), it just exposes the abilities in sane ways. If you actually look at the homepage of gitless you will also immediately see what fuse does: https://gitless.com/#gl-fuse I believe that by reading that one, not very long page, most people (including non-programmers) can use gl correctly most of the time. This is not the case for git. BTW, gl branch is for creating/deleting branches, gl switch is for switching your working tree from one branch to another. These are very different things, why should they be under the same command? For git, the last paragraph is a necessary but in no way sufficient step towards using it proficiently. Gitless is actually much closer to realizing that vision. Seriously, people need to go back and teach beginners git to realize how bad it is. We have internalized so much of the bad design decisions in git that we don't notice them anymore.

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