GitHub Desktop gives you a beautiful, syntax-highlighted sidebar. You can click through files, see exactly what lines went red or green, and—here is the magic— to stage only part of a file.
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. Switching branches is a dropdown menu
For years, the unspoken rule was: Real developers use the CLI. But somewhere along the way, we forgot that the goal isn't to look cool—it's to ship code. That’s where comes in. One click
Let’s be honest: we’ve all been there. You’re three cups of coffee deep, trying to stage just that one specific line in a file, but git add -p feels like you’re hacking a mainframe in a 90s movie.