[DriftRegion]

The article writes:

> they had not asked me to explain git, they had asked me to explain GitHub

This is often the case for me as well.

Hey, at least git owns it by calling the shell commands "porcelain" (with git itself being the plumbing -- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6976473/what-does-the-te... ).

The core value proposition of GitHub, GitLab, etc is to provide a nice GUI atop git. That's huge. I think that user-studies to improve one of the many existing foss git GUIs would be much better use of brain than deprecating git checkout.

[xeonmc]

What should the ui layer atop porcelain be called? Gilding?

[divbzero]

I believe the layer you’re thinking of is ‘glaze’:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic_glaze