Git GUI or Command Line?
I am a junior and I use git via the command line. My boss thinks I am only trying to be fancy and that I'd be more productive using a GUI.
Is he right? Pls help.
Is he right? Pls help.
I'm intermediate with git at best. I don't do anything fancy. I pull, branch, merge, push, and that's basically it. All day. I've used bisect precisely once about a year ago, I still don't know what rebase does... But I'm rock solid on the stuff I do know.
Given that I do things like:
git co -b feature/new-menu
git pull
git merge staging
git push
git co staging
git pull staging
git merge feature/new-menu
git push staging
Hundreds of times a day, there's simply no way it's faster to do it in a gui. I can type git co staging, git pull, git merge feature/whatever, :wq ( to close vim ), git push in probably 4-5 seconds now. I don't even think about it when I type it I've done it so often.
Get that fast at it and then invite your boss to watch. There's no way anyone could be convinced that a gui would be faster for me if they watched me pushing/pulling/creating/merging branches. They wouldn't be able to keep up.
(not a brag at all btw. These are simple tasks done hundreds of times every single day. You get really, really fast with that!)
good luck!
Also, almost all documentation/HOWTOs you read will assume you're using the command line.
You're right to be using it. Even if you're not a power-user yet, you'll get there in time and will benefit greatly from it.
If you don't know git command, you don't know Git at all.