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I'm sure this has been posted before, but regardless it's still extremely relevant. It's been almost 3 years now since this article was written, and I've still

by Ajedi32 10y ago

I'm sure this has been posted before, but regardless it's still extremely relevant. It's been almost 3 years now since this article was written, and I've still yet to see a git UI which is anywhere near as good as the one proposed here in terms of functionality and UX. If a GUI like this is ever implemented, I might finally be able to use something besides the CLI for my git client.

inetknght 10y ago
Git has `git log --gra.....` actually no nevermind that's far too obscure and useless. Just use `tig`. TUIs are generally more useful than GUIs in my experience anyway.
- Ajedi32 10y ago
  > Git has `git log --gra.....` I have an alias `git lg` which does basically that. The only problem is that once I run that command and have that nice, pretty DAG, I can't manipulate any of those commits directly; I'm stuck manipulating the commit graph indirectly by typing out commands and copy-pasting commit hashes into the terminal. A decent GUI like the one described in this article would fix that.
  - hdhzy 10y ago
    Ha, I also use that alias. Simple operations can be done directly in gitk (moving branches etc.) but a real solution that'd make `git lg` editable would be an incredible boon.
js2 10y ago
> I'm sure this has been posted before Original discussion (41 points, 12 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7906511 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7906511
gregmac 10y ago
GitKraken [1] has quite a few features that are very similar to what is shown in the article: * Switching branches with dirty working copy does an auto stash/pop (also stashes are shown visually in the timeline attached to the branch) * You can do a commit by editing the placeholder text in the timeline (though there's still a distinction between working copy and staged) * You can shift+click multiple commits and squash merge them * You can cherry pick by right-clicking, but not drag-and-drop * You can merge or rebase by dragging branches to each other (just found that out, I usually right-click) * It's a UI, so there's a visual DAG tree (and it's fairly nice looking) I have no affiliation with the company, I've just been using it for the past several months. [1] https://www.gitkraken.com/features https://www.gitkraken.com/features

by Ajedi32 10y ago

inetknght 10y ago

Git has `git log --gra.....` actually no nevermind that's far too obscure and useless. Just use `tig`. TUIs are generally more useful than GUIs in my experience anyway.

Ajedi32 10y ago
> Git has `git log --gra.....` I have an alias `git lg` which does basically that. The only problem is that once I run that command and have that nice, pretty DAG, I can't manipulate any of those commits directly; I'm stuck manipulating the commit graph indirectly by typing out commands and copy-pasting commit hashes into the terminal. A decent GUI like the one described in this article would fix that.
- hdhzy 10y ago
  Ha, I also use that alias. Simple operations can be done directly in gitk (moving branches etc.) but a real solution that'd make `git lg` editable would be an incredible boon.

js2 10y ago

> I'm sure this has been posted before Original discussion (41 points, 12 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7906511 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7906511

gregmac 10y ago

GitKraken [1] has quite a few features that are very similar to what is shown in the article: * Switching branches with dirty working copy does an auto stash/pop (also stashes are shown visually in the timeline attached to the branch) * You can do a commit by editing the placeholder text in the timeline (though there's still a distinction between working copy and staged) * You can shift+click multiple commits and squash merge them * You can cherry pick by right-clicking, but not drag-and-drop * You can merge or rebase by dragging branches to each other (just found that out, I usually right-click) * It's a UI, so there's a visual DAG tree (and it's fairly nice looking) I have no affiliation with the company, I've just been using it for the past several months. [1] https://www.gitkraken.com/features https://www.gitkraken.com/features