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Julia Evans' Git cheat sheet
(programming.dev)
Git cheat sheets are a dime-a-dozen but I think this one is awfully concise for its scope.
- Visually covers branching (WITH the commands -- rebasing the current branch can be confusing for the unfamiliar)
- Covers reflog
- Literally almost identical to how I use git (most sheets are either Too Much or Too Little)
The lengths Ppl will go to in order to not use a GUI... I haven't written a git command in a terminal in years.
Learnt how it works, played around with it then used different GUI tools for it.
My personal experience is most people who are using git with a GUI are the same people who are asking my help to git-fu their git-problems...
Most GUIs only offer a subset of the git functionalities and hide what's really going on by obscuring gitshell with "their workflow".
In all cases, use what you like; some people like the shell. Cheatsheets are normally only for learning purposes and usually don't stick for long, it's not an end game thing...
I've been using TortoiseGit since the beginning, and it covers everything I need. Including advanced use cases. I can access almost all functionality from the log view, which is very nice.
I've tried a few other GUIs, but they were never able to reach parity to that for me. As you say, most offer only a subset of functionalities. Most of the time I even found the main advantage of GUIs in general, a visual log, inferior to TortoiseGit.
GitButler looks interesting for its new set of functionalities, new approaches. Unfortunately, it doesn't integrate well on Windows yet. Asking for my key password on every fetch and push is not an acceptable workflow to me.