My philosophy is that when you use the command line, a) You learn the tool better, and b) wherever you are where there's git, you can use it. No need to install anything else.
I had that philosophy back when I used Subversion, and I think it served me well. It really isn't that hard to use the command line. Especially if you use the subset in my post. I also suspect that GUI tools will generally have the power to deal with staging, branching, etc, and may thus be harder for a total newbie to understand, and more intimidating, than the few commands I outlined in the post.
I had that philosophy back when I used Subversion, and I think it served me well. It really isn't that hard to use the command line. Especially if you use the subset in my post. I also suspect that GUI tools will generally have the power to deal with staging, branching, etc, and may thus be harder for a total newbie to understand, and more intimidating, than the few commands I outlined in the post.
That's my take on it anyway. YMMV, of course!