Beagle: Git, URIs and all the dirty words (replicated.wiki)

I love the idea of building a new Git UI on top of Git primitives[1], but the REST inspiration leaves me feeling underwhelmed; there has to be a more human-friendly model.

[1] https://replicated.wiki/wiki/Home.html

That seems unnecessarily cryptic -- the whole HTTP analogy doesn't really work well, or the article doesn't do a good job of explaining it. I know, I come from a place of knowing git and beginners are often confused by it... but surely "checkout a branch, make a commit" has a clearer mental model than "post ?branch!", whatever that is supposed to mean.

"yo dawg, I heard you like confusing SVC CLIs" vibes

I admire any attempt to simplify Git. I'm less convinced that making it look like HTTP is the simplification people were asking for