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I've successfully gotten non-devs to use Git via GitKraken. Its interface is simple, but doesn't hide anything. Harder to make mistakes because it actually show
by francislavoie 5y ago
I've successfully gotten non-devs to use Git via GitKraken. Its interface is simple, but doesn't hide anything. Harder to make mistakes because it actually shows you what's going on, and even has an "Undo" button which lets you back out of mistakes most of the time.
- tmm84 5y agoWhen I was just starting out with git and hadn't really learned enough of the more advanced workflows in git I really wanted gitkraken. Much like the jetbrains software it has a license requirement so that can be a turn-off but if you're trying to teach git in a visual way on teaching projects this software is great.
- francislavoie 5y agoIt's free for open source work, and you can sign up as a student if you're still in school to get it for free for a while. But yeah, I pay for it now because it's such a significant time saver for my day-to-day. I'm always aware of what my coworkers are doing because it auto-fetches every minute. I use it for code review as well, because I find it really easy and snappy to navigate file changes in a commit (I always use split view, and I almost always have "hide whitespaces changes" on). I has a great interface for interactive rebases as well, allowing to drag to reorder commits, etc. Good built-in merge conflict resolution tool.
- oldsecondhand 5y agoSourcetree has a quite usable free version, I found it very useful as a beginner but haven't used it in the last 4 years.