Adopted a git GUI years ago and haven't looked back. I get looks sometimes, but I can't help but gloat when I can stage and unstage individual lines in less than a second.

I think anyone who uses the CLI is either trying too hard or hasn't realized the beauty of a git GUI.

Takeaways:

- My commit time is usually much faster than coworkers, with higher accuracy (less frequent accidental commits, etc.)

- I don't remember the last time I made an irreversible change to the repo, or had an "oh shit" moment. And that's despite using some interesting git features.

- Staging individual files, folders, lines of code, or hunks is easy. Makes maintaining multiple trains of though / addressing bugs while working on other code a non-issue.

- It's easy to keep files uncommitted for long periods of time intentionally, without slowing down my workflow.

- It's much easier to get an overview of the changes I'm making.

What GUI do you recommend? My experience has been that GUIs are the easiest and fastest way to make a mess that can't be corrected without dropping to CLI or re-cloning. (I'm looking at you SourceTree). I've long recommended that everyone who uses git know how to use the CLI even if they don't use it regularly.

- Open source (and free) - Multiplataform

The one with the best usability was Git Extensions: https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions

It is somewhat old ugly, and open a little too much of dialogs, but the workflow really works. It guides you to make the right thing.

A great plus is that it already comes with Kdiff3, a great open source 3 way diff open source program.