• maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    You can just diff two commits on the cli with git diff commit1 commit2 but I guess that what you mean is that you might not have any specific reference two either of the commits so you have to browse through the log to find the commit message that describes the commit, which I’ll grant you is easier in a gui because you have two variables that you have to copy and paste if you’re in the terminal.

    Yea, this is what I’m talking about. When all of the visual affordances coalesce into a pretty simple flow.

    And to be clear, I’d suspect many like myself end up using both, where there’ll always be some shortcoming in any given GUI that only the CLI can fill functionality/power wise. But defaulting to a GUI (or even a good TUI or editor plugin) for everyday usage, like I said, makes sense.