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I'm personally a huge fan of https://www.gitkraken.com/ https://www.gitkraken.com/ (I also used to work there.) Don't have to memorize git cli commands and get

I'm personally a huge fan of https://www.gitkraken.com/ https://www.gitkraken.com/ (I also used to work there.) Don't have to memorize git cli commands and get beautiful visuals on top of that.

rinchik 7y ago
ugh i hate GUIs, for me those are a middle man. With cli, i can "feel" git. with GUI i'm just telling a 3rd party to talk with git for me. That 3rd party can also screw up some communication, just like in telephone game.
- wruza 7y ago
  They also fail to at least show you the conversation before it starts, so you could align your ideas on what can go wrong. I had to ditch tortoise<vcsname> for this exact reason in our entire division, except for simple initial checkouts. That damn thing always tried to append some “--qwerty --asdf” to every innocent command it could be asked to perform.
jackcodes 7y ago
I do appreciate that this is probably a cracking tool for beginners and juniors. If it was skilling someone up to git using this tool or not at all, damn right I’m choosing this. But I can’t bring myself to run a web browser to run git commands either. The git binary on my system comes out at 2.5Mb and the MacOS .app bundle for this is 346.5Mb.
- JamesQuigley 7y ago
  Yeah pretty much every app I run nowadays is Electron. Don't love that, but they bring me enough value that it's 100% worth it for me. I'm with the other commenters that I don't like having to google a git command every time I have to do something more complex than add/commit. GK is perfect in that sense
mroche 7y ago
It’s been a long span of time since I’ve used GitKraken or Atlassian Sourcetree, but GK had some serious performance issues with larger repos in my experience. Very clean app, though, and I did enjoy it. Right now, Im partial to Sublime Merge[0] as it’s fast, has a clean UI for diffing, shares many similarities with Sublime, and also shows the use what git commands they’re running by hovering. It can be a very effective tool for learning git. It has the same evaluation structure as Sublime, so that’s a bonus as well. [0] https://www.sublimemerge.com/ https://www.sublimemerge.com/
- JamesQuigley 7y ago
  Yeah there definitely used to be some perf issues. There have been some massive improvements recently though for big repos. You should give it a try again!
BalinKing 7y ago
Hi, James (it's Josh Grosso)! Are you not at Axosoft anymore? If not, where'd you move to (and how are you doing either way)?

I'm personally a huge fan of https://www.gitkraken.com/ https://www.gitkraken.com/ (I also used to work there.) Don't have to memorize git cli commands and get beautiful visuals on top of that.

rinchik 7y ago

ugh i hate GUIs, for me those are a middle man. With cli, i can "feel" git. with GUI i'm just telling a 3rd party to talk with git for me. That 3rd party can also screw up some communication, just like in telephone game.

wruza 7y ago
They also fail to at least show you the conversation before it starts, so you could align your ideas on what can go wrong. I had to ditch tortoise<vcsname> for this exact reason in our entire division, except for simple initial checkouts. That damn thing always tried to append some “--qwerty --asdf” to every innocent command it could be asked to perform.

jackcodes 7y ago

I do appreciate that this is probably a cracking tool for beginners and juniors. If it was skilling someone up to git using this tool or not at all, damn right I’m choosing this. But I can’t bring myself to run a web browser to run git commands either. The git binary on my system comes out at 2.5Mb and the MacOS .app bundle for this is 346.5Mb.

JamesQuigley 7y ago
Yeah pretty much every app I run nowadays is Electron. Don't love that, but they bring me enough value that it's 100% worth it for me. I'm with the other commenters that I don't like having to google a git command every time I have to do something more complex than add/commit. GK is perfect in that sense

mroche 7y ago

It’s been a long span of time since I’ve used GitKraken or Atlassian Sourcetree, but GK had some serious performance issues with larger repos in my experience. Very clean app, though, and I did enjoy it. Right now, Im partial to Sublime Merge[0] as it’s fast, has a clean UI for diffing, shares many similarities with Sublime, and also shows the use what git commands they’re running by hovering. It can be a very effective tool for learning git. It has the same evaluation structure as Sublime, so that’s a bonus as well. [0] https://www.sublimemerge.com/ https://www.sublimemerge.com/

JamesQuigley 7y ago
Yeah there definitely used to be some perf issues. There have been some massive improvements recently though for big repos. You should give it a try again!

BalinKing 7y ago

Hi, James (it's Josh Grosso)! Are you not at Axosoft anymore? If not, where'd you move to (and how are you doing either way)?