If you haven’t tried it lately, or if you think GUIs are just for beginners, here is why you might want to snap GitHub Desktop into your daily workflow. The biggest pain point in Git is visualizing what you actually changed. git diff works, but it’s raw text.
GitHub Desktop puts a giant, bold branch name at the top. Switching branches is a dropdown menu. Creating a new branch from an issue is two clicks. Publishing a local branch to remote? One click. snap github desktop
It visualizes your repo’s history as a clean graph. You can literally see where feature/login split off from main and where develop is lagging behind. Merge conflicts are inevitable. Resolving them in VS Code or a text editor usually involves searching for <<<<<<< HEAD and playing archeologist with your own code. If you haven’t tried it lately, or if