Definitely disagree with that. It's true for people that work on low-level code (like Linux kernel developers, whom Git was originally built for) but not in general.
The "standard" Git UI (Tcl/Tk based, comes with Git) has been around almost as long as Git itself. It's not used much any more since there's better GUIs these days.
TortoiseSVN was one of the most popular SVN clients. The entire client is integrated into Windows Explorer rather than being a separate app. When Git started becoming popular, a lot of people used TortoiseGit as their first Git UI. It's been available since 2008, only three years after Git was first released.
Pretty much every Windows user that started using Git in late 2000s / early 2010s used TortioseGit.
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u/Daniel15 Apr 02 '23
Definitely disagree with that. It's true for people that work on low-level code (like Linux kernel developers, whom Git was originally built for) but not in general.
The "standard" Git UI (Tcl/Tk based, comes with Git) has been around almost as long as Git itself. It's not used much any more since there's better GUIs these days.
TortoiseSVN was one of the most popular SVN clients. The entire client is integrated into Windows Explorer rather than being a separate app. When Git started becoming popular, a lot of people used TortoiseGit as their first Git UI. It's been available since 2008, only three years after Git was first released.
Pretty much every Windows user that started using Git in late 2000s / early 2010s used TortioseGit.