# Simplifying Git by Using GitButler

DevFeed: [Simplifying Git by Using GitButler](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/simplifying-git-by-using-gitbutler-51353.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.gitbutler.com/simplifying-git>)

Author: noreply@gitbutler.com (PJ Hagerty)

Published: 2026-02-22T16:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Butler's Log](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/butler-s-log.md>)

Topics: [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>)

Tags: [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [command-line](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/command-line.md>), [developer-tool](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-tool.md>), [developer-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-tools.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [git-commands](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git-commands.md>), [git-git-commands-gitbutler-developer-tool-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git-git-commands-gitbutler-developer-tool-coding.md>), [gitbutler](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gitbutler.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [software-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-development.md>), [technology](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technology.md>), [version-control](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/version-control.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how GitButler helps developers understand and use advanced Git features, including interactive rebasing, selective staging, concurrent branches, worktrees, reflog, and history rewriting. It presents GitButler as a visual layer that makes Git state and relationships easier to understand and manage safely.

## Source excerpt

Git is great - and has been for twenty years. But in that time, how many of us have advanced our git skills? Most of us know about five or six commands: clone, status, push/pull, add, commit, branch, and checkout.