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What GUI do you recommend? My experience has been that GUIs are the easiest and fastest way to make a mess that can't be corrected without dropping to CLI or r
by emeraldd 9y ago
What GUI do you recommend? My experience has been that GUIs are the easiest and fastest way to make a mess that can't be corrected without dropping to CLI or re-cloning. (I'm looking at you SourceTree). I've long recommended that everyone who uses git know how to use the CLI even if they don't use it regularly.
- welly 9y agoIf you're on a mac, I can't recommend Tower enough. It's a paid app but well worth the money. Otherwise Git Kraken is a foss offering that is also excellent.
- Ajedi32 9y agoGit Kraken isn't FOSS. The site says "Free for non-commercial use", and AFAIK the source isn't available anywhere. I think maybe the term you're looking for is "freeware"?
- welly 9y agoAh, you're quite right. I was under the impression it was FOSS - I used it a while ago, preferred Tower and so went back to that.
- mistersquid 9y agoI second your recommendation of Tower. About a year ago, I made a comment right here on HN singing Tower's praise names. [0] It's impossible to sing those names loudly enough. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12677542
- shagie 9y agoApparently, there is now also a windows version. https://www.git-tower.com/windows https://www.git-tower.com/windows
- GFischer 9y agoThanks, I had disregarded Tower until I saw your comment :)
- dewey 9y agoI want to second that. Also the integration with diff tools like Kaleidoscope is a nice touch. (Even though Kaleidoscope feels like abandonware at this point)
- Froyoh 9y agoHow is atlassian's Sourcetree?
- prewett 9y agoI like it a lot, it make git as simple as mercurial. I don't think it is hiding complexity, but the visual arrangement makes sense. The staging area becomes actually useful, and I love that you can stage (or revert) pieces of a file, which is handy when you forgot to commit one thing before moving on to the next. I've only had to merge a branch once, and here I was completely confused on what was going end. This may be SourceTree's fault or git's fault. Maybe my lack of understanding. I hate git, I don't understand git, I don't want to have to understand git, and I think the command line interface makes every UI error in the book. But SourceTree has made me like git.
- tigershark 9y agoIncredibly slow. I was never annoyed so much when using a software...
- welly 9y agoWe have a bunch of projects that are stored in a mercurial repo so I've been using Sourcetree for that as I've found MacHG pretty unusable. I think it's pretty good, not as good in my opinion (the UI, mainly) as Tower for Mac which I use for Git, but makes Mercurial easy to use for this (somewhat) hardened Git user.
- machiaweliczny 9y agoGitup is free and probably better.
- welly 9y agoThanks for the tip, I'll have to check it out.
- aoeuhtns 9y agoMagit in emacs. Probably one of the killer applications for emacs.
- karmajunkie 9y ago+1, along with Tig (console gui).
- menacingly 9y agoThanks for telling me about tig, now I'm justified for having browsed HN today. It treats my "assume everything works like vim" habit well
- alunaryak 9y agotig is great -- it makes it very easy to stage individual lines of code (using 1) or to reset unstaged changes on a file (using ! in the status view).
- karmajunkie 9y agoit covers like 80% of my use-cases (which I use 99% of the time), and weirdly magit gets me the other 20% if I can remember which trail of breadcrumbs I follow through helm to make it happen. For the easier stuff I just drop down into the cli though.
- bradyholt 9y agoI love tig!
- monsieurbanana 9y agoI'd hesitate to call Magit a git GUI though. If we take Ranger for example, who calls itself the "CLI file manager", then Magit is rather a "git CLI".
- gumby 9y ago
- LiquidFlux 9y agoNot the OP, but I had come from SourceTree to GitKraken and it's a joy to use.
- yoodenvranx 9y agoSame for me! I used SourceTree in the past but at the moment I am using the free version of GitKraken for private projects and I am very happy.
- nastysquar3d 9y agoI use TortiseGit in my personal and work dev environments. It works works well. That being said, I have had to drop to CLI to fix things that were somewhat more hairy.
- neves 9y agoTortoise was great on Subversion, but I don't like it for Git. The UI in thought to work with a centralized version control is isn't well adapted to Git.
- Noumenon72 9y agoMy company uses Mercurial still and TortoiseHg is the best thing about it. I can sling big piles of commits around, patch, graft, and search, it's all so easy. I hope it works as well for Git or Git can catch up.
- slobotron 9y agoNot the OP, but git cola works great for me. https://git-cola.github.io/ https://git-cola.github.io/
- _pmf_ 9y agoI recommend SmartGit; it's not cheap, but it's really, really nice.
- keithnz 9y agoSmartGit is really nice. It's also free for hobby / open source but worth buying for commerical work, but it is pricey, and I think getting the lifelong updates is the way to go.
- Achshar 9y agoI use sourcetree and it's pretty great, especially the aforementioned block-level staging.
- nwatson 9y agoSourceTree by Atlassian ... free.
- gumby 9y ago> What GUI do you recommend? I really like Magit, which is a git GUI you can use without leaving Emacs. It handles 90% of my git needs and is very tightly integrated into my IDE (Emacs). I still use some shell commands (like git mv) occasionally but those are simply m-! away.
- aldanor 9y agoSecond that; I'm using Spacemacs just for Magit and nothing else, although it's mainly vim or clion for development. Haven't seen a single git client that would be close to Magit; too sad it needs Emacs, could have potentially been an awesome standalone...
- kenoyer130 9y agoThe Git GUI that ships with git is very good. It also shows how Git thinks (workspace/staging/commit) that most other gui's struggle with (they try to make it look more like a SVN workflow). For diffs and blame I use TortioseGit. I also extensively use the CLI for most branch actions.
- neves 9y agoI tested a bunch of Git GUIs. My requisites: - Open source (and free) - Multiplataform The one with the best usability was Git Extensions: https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions It is somewhat old ugly, and open a little too much of dialogs, but the workflow really works. It guides you to make the right thing. A great plus is that it already comes with Kdiff3, a great open source 3 way diff open source program.
- xeromal 9y agoAgreed, Git Extensions taught me Git visually rather than through a tutorial.
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- bolololo1 9y agoI like GitKraken
- ggregoire 9y agoVSCode or Github Desktop (even if the project is on Gitlab).
- flatline 9y agoI personally switch between the command line, git gui and gitk. I haven’t yet found a suitable GUI replacement for those two.
- filereaper 9y agoI'd like to also point out tig. "Tig is an ncurses-based text-mode interface for git" It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of a GUI, but if you need to look at all the branches, and commits to a repository. tig is an excellent tool. tig doesn't issue any commands though, its only a browser, you'll still need to know the CLI. (essentially a ncurses version of gitk) I'm normally in a ssh session on a remote box where my compile & run cycles happen. tig is curses based, so no X11 needed, filled in a really nice itch of mine. [1] https://github.com/jonas/tig https://github.com/jonas/tig
- archon810 9y ago+1 for tig. I'm also a big fan.
- mejari 9y agoFor any Windows users out there, I use GitExtensions, which has served me very well over the years.
- Vel0cityX 9y agoI use SmartGit. Way faster and more stable than SourceTree and GitKraken, in my experience.
- archon810 9y ago+1 for SmartGit, and SmartSVN if you ever use SVN.