It's totally opposite for me. I can't understand the UI apps for GIT. Right now I am using IntelliJ Idea and it has an excellent GUI for GIT; however, for all my GIT work, I still go to terminal app. :)
Usually, I feel like git is more than enough. But when I have my push rejected because I failed to fetch first, it's just a single click in IntelliJ to fetch, rebase my work on that and push it again.
There's also hub, from GitHub. I find myself using "hub sync" to update all my local branches at once.
JPA madness is still ON and that is unfortunate. Spring framework guys at Pivotal are designing all kinds of database access (SQL, NoSQL) around JPA interfaces.
