> SmartGit […] GitKraken > I would be really interested in understanding why so many developers are reluctant to doing anything other than the Git command line

> SmartGit […] GitKraken > I would be really interested in understanding why so many developers are reluctant to doing anything other than the Git command line. In the spirit of curiosity, I downloaded the two packages. SmartGit shows me a document and outright threatens me to "deactivate". https://www.syntevo.com/blog/?p=4148 https://www.syntevo.com/blog/?p=4148 This is a euphemism for other people coming to my computer and deciding what I am able to do or not. I declined here. GitKraken shows a log-in screen before letting me use the software properly. It does not refer to the account I already have on my operating system and which is entirely under my control, but some other account which is under the control of other people. That account could be revoked at any time without my say in the matter and then I would not be able to use the software, on the face of it that's the purpose of the log-in screen. I declined here. As such, I did not even run the central part of the two software packages and cannot tell my opinion how well it would work, but I already learned what I needed to know. I object to other people desiring to restrict how I use a software. This is fundamentally not compatible with my view on how I want to run my life, and that software/the people responsible for it have no business telling me. I will never consider these packages again. The software I have been using for years, namely qgit (a GUI) and the command-line tools, impose no such restriction.