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I held out for more than a year and then gave in. Having to research, find, and learn a new git GUI was going to cost me more than $70.

So I've punted the problem for another year. But I strongly agree that it's absolutely the wrong fit for this kind of app. They will start adding all kinds of bloat just to justify the monthly fee.

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Not researching, finding and learning a new git GUI is also going to cost you more than $70. Year, after year, after year ...

One more reason to learn the command line.

Once you know how git cli works, any UI is easy to understand.

No vendor lock in.

A gui adds a lot on top of a git cli for me. Scrolling diffs/history and adding/removing staged lines alone is better. Using a gui doesn’t mean you didn’t arrive there deliberately.

I actually do almost everything in the CLI (checkouts, pull/push, branches, most no-conflict merges, most rebases, tags, etc), however when you're rebasing, messing with branches and merges, nothing beats a visual medium to just even look at the graph and make sense of it.

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