Comment by kazinator

"git gui" is not just a wrapper for commands; it has usefully different workflows.

For instance, you can visually select a range of lines in a file, and stage those lines.

This is much easier than doing "git add --patch" and using edit, where you are deleting unwanted lines starting with +, turning - lines into context and whatnot.

I have found it useful to fire up "git gui" during rebase workflows with conflicts. It helps with the "git add" commands you would have to do to add conflict-resolved files into the patch and whatnot.