I think they mean it is an interactive type terminal program (vs "one shot" as the git cli itself).
From the GIF in the repo I think it's somewhere between CLI and TUI -- it's interactive but does not try to draw windows/surfaces in the terminal. But the borderline is fuzzy, so yeah
The most popular CLI today is the browser's address / search / everything-else input control.
CLI as a paradigm is not necessarily related to emulating 1980s DEC hardware.
Yeah, “terminal-based CLI” might’ve been a fuzzy phrase — I meant it’s an interactive command-line tool, not just a one-shot command like most git subcommands.
It’s somewhere between a minimal TUI and a CLI — no full-screen UI, but it does guide the user interactively.
Thanks for the discussion, made me realize I should clarify that better in the README.