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What Git clients do you use? (feddit.nl)
submitted 1 week ago by Faalangst_26@feddit.nl to c/programming@programming.dev
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I'm wondering if you use any (graphical) clients to manage your Git, and if so, what client you use.

I myself have to use git professionally across all 3 major OS-es, and I currently use Sourcetree on Windows and macOS, and the Git tools built-in into IntelliJ on Linux.

Have given MaGit a try, but just couldn't get all the shortcuts to stick in my mind.

Interested to hear your experiences!

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[โ€“] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have a love-hate relationship with it. Due to work reasons I'm more familiar than I want to be with tortoiseSVN, and the git version is similar enough to feel at home. But that's also it's biggest downfall: it does a lot of things the "SVN way" despite being a git client. The workflow can be kinda made to work, but it always feels like it's not a native git tool, because it isn't. I would go so far as to say that it encouragedrl bad habits on git, especially for those used to tortoiseSVN.

[โ€“] Kissaki@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

What do you mean in particular?

The only thing that comes to mind for me is the "restore after commit" being a different chunk-add workflow than add --patch - but I don't think it's worse.