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I use a combination of command line and GUI. From the command line, using git for commit, add, status, push, pull, fetch, branch, add remote and rm is just clea

I use a combination of command line and GUI. From the command line, using git for commit, add, status, push, pull, fetch, branch, add remote and rm is just clearer, quicker and more straightforward in many cases. From any of the IntelliJ derivatives I'll tend to do add, commit, push and diff just because it's a clean interface where I'm already working. I've never really like any of the standalone 3rd party tools though. They just never felt like they gave me anything all that useful.

danbolt 9y ago
I'd love to find a better third-party UI for git too. Or, I've found SourceTree or the GitHub app (not the latest Electron release, albeit) hard to work with when doing a lot of stuff outside the typical add/commit/push, so I've slowly ended up learning the command line over the years. I've seen others get in situations with fussy merge conflicts or a detached HEAD and be clueless why the UI isn't working properly. I can't blame them though, since git can be complicated and a tool like SourceTree has to make things nicely-abstracted to be helpful/productive. It's hard to know what details to make explicit/simplify, and I think with git there's a lot of work we could still do.
- ryebit 9y ago
  Git really needs something on par with Mercurial's TortoiseHg - it actually manages to express all the edge cases in a natural fashion, and lets you jump from cmd line to gui and back with ease (it's more of a cmdline tool that happens to invoke gui dialogs). I've been looking for years to find something like it for git. Nearest I've seen was GitKraken, but it's UI is still horribly opaque, can't invoke from cmdline in nearly the same way, and requires me remotely authenticate (!?) to use it :|
- FireBeyond 9y ago
  GitKraken is my favorite UI, and they publish a number of videos to try to break down how features might be best used, supports Git Flow natively, etc.

danbolt 9y ago

I'd love to find a better third-party UI for git too. Or, I've found SourceTree or the GitHub app (not the latest Electron release, albeit) hard to work with when doing a lot of stuff outside the typical add/commit/push, so I've slowly ended up learning the command line over the years. I've seen others get in situations with fussy merge conflicts or a detached HEAD and be clueless why the UI isn't working properly. I can't blame them though, since git can be complicated and a tool like SourceTree has to make things nicely-abstracted to be helpful/productive. It's hard to know what details to make explicit/simplify, and I think with git there's a lot of work we could still do.

ryebit 9y ago
Git really needs something on par with Mercurial's TortoiseHg - it actually manages to express all the edge cases in a natural fashion, and lets you jump from cmd line to gui and back with ease (it's more of a cmdline tool that happens to invoke gui dialogs). I've been looking for years to find something like it for git. Nearest I've seen was GitKraken, but it's UI is still horribly opaque, can't invoke from cmdline in nearly the same way, and requires me remotely authenticate (!?) to use it :|
FireBeyond 9y ago
GitKraken is my favorite UI, and they publish a number of videos to try to break down how features might be best used, supports Git Flow natively, etc.