A nice project: Git is a wonderful version control system, but the git cli (the porcelain) definitely has some annoyances. I think submodules, for example, are completely broken at the CLI level.

I don't think this project necessarily goes far enough though; the biggest change I saw was getting rid of the staging area. Whether or not that's a good idea, I was hoping for crazier ideas!

For example, how about something that is more aware of github, where my github branches auto-update, and works nicely with forks, pull-requests and issues. The git-review integration for gerrit is interesting along those lines: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/git-review