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I’ll compare Fork with GitUp (https://gitup.co https://gitup.co) on macOS. A big advantage of Fork is a better merging experience. Personally, I use GitUp in c
by goblin89 7y ago
I’ll compare Fork with GitUp (https://gitup.co https://gitup.co) on macOS.
A big advantage of Fork is a better merging experience. Personally, I use GitUp in conjunction with CLI when I do rebases, which implies higher mental overhead.
Overall, Fork’s UI feels a fair bit slower to use compared to GitUp, both in terms of raw performance and design. For example, after selecting a commit, details take about half a second to load in the bottom pane, and expanding a diff from there takes a precision click. (The Changes subpane offers another diff view, but it requires to select a single changed file first and takes a half-second until file’s diff appears.)
GitUp is blazing-fast, has very focused UI, and further speeds up your workflow with well-thought keyboard shortcuts that cover pretty much all available functionality.
Platform integrations in Fork might make sense to someone, though to me it’s a concern. It supports GitHub and Bitbucket—what about Gitlab? Unless you monetize, I doubt you can integrate with everything, maintain each integration as their APIs evolve, and still spare enough effort on improving the core UI.
- UIZealot 7y agoBoth seem to work pretty well, if only I could actually use them. My aging eyes just can't deal with all the gray text on a white background in Fork, or the tiny text in GitUp. Sigh!
- strogonoff 7y agoSomeone is currently maintaining a fork of GitUp that adds a text size slider in preferences. On the other hand, maintainer’s response is a bit disheartening suggesting they have not (yet) encountered the eyesight issue themselves. See this feature request: https://github.com/git-up/GitUp/issues/470 https://github.com/git-up/GitUp/issues/470
- UIZealot 7y agoThanks for the link! Disheartening indeed. Found the fork at the end of that thread, and I'll give it a try.