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The UI story of Hg is much better than Git's. The conceptual model of Git looks superior, though: it's more general and more orthogonal.

I wish some well thought-out front-end to Git became hugely popular and eventually standard. I mean, including the CLI. Git even has a "plumbing mode" to interact with other programs more easily.

But doing that is hard work.



Although I'm quite familiar with git on the command line, I'm using git mostly through magit[1] for Emacs. It's a very functional and discoverable user interface.

[1]: https://magit.vc/


Same here! Magit is brilliant.

Emacs is a somehow heavyweight frontend for a VCS, though. OTOH it can be considered a GUI client (and comes with a nice built-in editor).




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