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Recommend a GUI client for git? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social to c/programming@kbin.social

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I was looking at video reviews of git GUI clients. The best ones are pricey and we are two people occasionally editing some webpages for our business website. It’s hosted on GitLab Pages.

Can anyone recommend something straightforward? I’ll be sticking to the terminal but my colleague is new to code repositories.

Git GUI is free, but looks terrible IMO. Sublime have a nice one and it’s not subscription based, but is expensive. We are both on Mac usually.

Another alternative I considered was showing them the three terminal commands I use mainly (add, commit and push) and then let them edit from the file manager itself. But because they’ll be doing this so rarely, it might be easy to forget.

Edit: I’ve settled on a few to try out: sourcetree, fork, gitup and the one by Sublime. The conversation doesn’t have to end there, but thanks for the help. So many great answers here :)

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Sourcetree is pretty good. GitHub Desktop is cross-platform and pretty good. Visual Studio Code has a GUI for git management and it's pretty good too. The last two are free, but idk about Sourcetree.

[–] DeGandalf@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

+1 for Sourcetree

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks. Just checked the Atlassian site and Sourcetree is a free download. I don’t see any mention of pricing either so it doesn’t seem to be a limited trial from what I can tell. Great!

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Glad I could help!

[–] TrippaSnippa@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use Sourcetree on Mac for work, though I use the terminal most of the time.

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

This was reviewed in the video I linked in another comment. Looking at their website though, at that link you share, it looks really suitable for beginners. Thank you, I appreciate the link.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I know OP is on Mac, but for anyone needing a git GUI on Windows, TortoiseGit is probably the best you'll find. Integrates right into File Explorer, turns nearly every command into a form, every flag and parameter into a field, and it even shows you the command you end up running. Very powerful, and doesn't do anything non-standard (looking at you Github). It's actually taught me more about git than just reading the manual ever did.

[–] jeeva@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Other than the subscription model, I'm a huge fan of GitKraken (and the vscode extension, GitLens).

[–] yamdwich@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Sublime Merge is what I use at work and is the only Git GUI I've had good luck with. It's not free but well worth the 50 bucks, or you can use it with the nag screen indefinitely like Sublime Text.

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh, I didn’t realise you could use it with the nag screen! Considering it will be used no more than once per month I think we can handle that :) Thanks, that settles it.

[–] gendulf@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

It's a Windows-specific client, but I really like GitExtensions.

[–] Lainesc@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

GitUp is pretty easy to use if they’re using a Mac.

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Great visual cues, free and open source. Incredible. Thank you.