Finding a decent GUI is definitely the biggest pain point in switching to git for us. It's not just that git GUIs are lacking generally, it's that there's fragm

Finding a decent GUI is definitely the biggest pain point in switching to git for us. It's not just that git GUIs are lacking generally, it's that there's fragmentation - the best ones on one OS don't necessarily work on other OSs. Tortoisehg was so universal that it practically was mercurial, for the purposes of many users. We are scientists and wanting to attract contributions to our code from other scientists and grad students who can code somewhat but are unlikely to have used version control before interacting with our project. Having a universal GUI was excellent for mentoring people and spreading the knowledge around. It's going to be much harder with git (since we are moving to github - I like what sourcehut is doing for devs, but email-based pull requests will mean we get very few contributors who aren't already seasoned devs, so we have decided against it for now). From my experimenting, I'm liking Sublime Merge as my favourite git GUI so far. It's nagware (i. e. no time limit evaluation period) like sublime text, and costs US$99 to remove the nag and enable the dark theme. It is pretty and functional without being overwhelming in its interface.