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If 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.
by welly 9y ago
If 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.