The trick to suffering the git user interface is using magit in emacs. Even if you don’t usually use emacs, it’s probably worth installing it and setting it up with a command to start it up straight into magit.
Otherwise I’m hoping for pijul to somehow gain popularity (and a bit of polish) and become mainstream. I guess a motto for it could be “the high quality user interface and semantics of darcs without the exponential time complexity”
There's a few good UIs for git if you don't like its command line; along the lines of magit, I've recently been using fugitive in Vim and it's terrific. For the Mac, there's the free and open source Gitup, and of course there's a host of commercial clients.
But, having said that, I made my peace with the git command line years ago, in part by learning to appreciate aliases:
co = checkout
ci = commit
dt = difftool
mt = mergetool
amend = commit --amend
pfwl = push --force-with-lease
(The first two are my personal hangovers from Subversion.) I also have a "gpsup" shell alias which expands to
The latter is taken from Oh My Zsh -- which actually has dozens of git aliases, most of which I never used. (When I realized "most of which I never used" applied to all of Oh My Zsh for me, I stopped using it, but that's a different post.)
tl;dr: I used to have a serious hate-on for git's command line, but one of its underestimated powers is its tweakability.
You don't even need git aliases for this, I personally use bash aliases for 90% of git use cases. Thus I type gc instead of "git commit", gd instead of "git diff", ga instead of "git add", etc.
Otherwise I’m hoping for pijul to somehow gain popularity (and a bit of polish) and become mainstream. I guess a motto for it could be “the high quality user interface and semantics of darcs without the exponential time complexity”