I was holding to that famous UNIX mentality for many years, since I started programming almost... Use many programs that do one single thing, pipe the data, print it on the main output etc etc. That’s how I used git too, writing 160 chars wide commands... I tried playing with Emacs year and a half ago, and it was big cultural shock, for first year of using it I still couldn’t adopt kitchensink philosophy. But after barely scratching what emacs had to offer I went back to my unix terminal workflow it felt clunkier than ever.

Takeaway from this story can be Magit. It totally changed my perception of git, and felt like more robust and semantically better way to use/understand git. Maybe it was like that because of few years of terminal git usage, don’t know how will complete beginner react to magit. But what shocked me the most was how my approach to git changed with dofferent interface. GUIs never appealed to me, but magit represented the middle ground of GUI like functionality with terminal like interface that got many things semantically right.