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Why don't people use git properly?
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Yeah also people get into a mess and don't understand the state of the repo. Like they're organising files without ever running
ls. If you ask these CLI fanatics for the solution they'll say "you don't need a GUI, just rungit log --tree --oneline --decorate --all"... which is just a poor man's GUI.