Oh, the problem is that concepts like "squash" and "fast-forward merge" and "remote ref" just don't make a lot of sense immediately.
Fine, but that problem shouldn't be somehow specific to the GUI and irrelevant to the CLI. The purpose of having a GUI isn't to teach people git or hide unfamiliar concepts, it's to make correct operations more convenient to people who for whatever reason don't want a CLI in their workflow.
I have often benefited from recommendations for Things I Didn't Know I Wanted.
Given that Less Wrong is a community of unusually intelligent, critical, and self-improvement-focused people, I suspect we can generate a pretty helpful thread of product recommendations — perhaps even a monthly thread of product recommendations.
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