GIT GUI vs Command Line

In the past couple of posts, I’ve been using the command line to interact with Git, but you don’t have to do that! You can actually use an application to do git commands. If you haven’t guessed it by now, today, we are going to talk about using an app for git versus using the command line.

Now, you might be wondering, why would you want to use an app to interface with Git instead of the command line?

Well here are some reasons:

• Graph view of commits
• Graph view of branches
• See the changes and explore them more

It’s really nice to be able to see all of this in a more user-friendly way. Yes, you can see this all through the command line, but it can be a bit easier to read in an app also might be a bit easier to use. Especially because you don’t have to remember the commands.