One other joy is that I have started RUNning errands. Seriously. I RUN them. Makes them so much more enjoyable and the short bursts of exercise are great. I hope all your runs are well!

But, it does look like git reflog could be our key to one really awesome feature for git undo and git redo.

Having undo and redo are keys for usability. They let users explore without fear of messing up the system.

It would be great to have:
# undo what ever git command I just did
git undo

# wait, redo that last git command. undo my undo
git redo

hg and bzr do not yet have this feature. We’ll start simple though. And, keep this one in mind for the future.

Your ideas are a first step toward Gitsperanto.

also… what about git retreat instead of revert or undo?

https://github.com/kennethreitz/legit

It’d probably be worth basing your work around what he’s already done (a fork) if you haven’t already.

I’d love to have the ability to:

gum new directory_name

or something like that,
and have it setup a new git with remote, much like github mac.

On the name, gum is all wrong. I’d call it git. I don’t know that this is the perfect proposal to clean up the git CLI, but something like this should be done to core git.

BTW, there is still one mention of undo instead of rewind in the post. Also, “rewind” doesn’t have the right connotation for me. How about “revert” (oops, taken). OK, how about “unchanged” or “re” or something like that?

It is better to make this wrapper work with any underlying DVCS or VCS, automatically discovering whether it is in the git, hg, bzr or svn repository, and implementing the same interface for all of them.

grb (git remote branch) is a ruby gem that adds the grb command. Very useful for branching, switching branches, fixing branches, etc. Sets up the remotes and everything for you. A great UI ontop of git branching.

git stash show -p | git apply && git stash drop

If you really want to make a better cli for it, than I believe it should do what user expects it to do, for example:
svn user does not know the commands, so he tries first the commands that he/she knows, git fails here.

Look how mercurial made it: most of the commands make sense, and a person without prior knowledge of hg can somehow work with it.

I wish you would keep Undo, since it quite clearly defines the intention. Paired with a confirmation dialog, it would work just fine.

Rewind is imo not a good keyword, it reminds me of old Walkman cassette players and not a Git specific function.