Programming

GittyUp! https://murmele.github.io/Gittyup

I previously used GitKraken but was looking for an open source alternative that works in a similar fashion and has a Flatpak.

Since I use Emacs I've been really happy with Magit, even tho it's UI has a bit of a learning curve to it. I've been also trying out Gitg since I moved back to GNOME and it's been really solid as well. It lacks a couple really nieche features but otherwise as a fast commit tracking/writing tool it's very good.

I am pretty hooked to SmartGit. I absolutely love their branch and commit view and haven't found another tool that visualizes the tree quite as good (for my taste; I assume it has to do with familiarization over time).

I did however buy a lifetime license when they still offered them. Their current pricing model would have probably turned me off before I even got hooked. It is absolutely worth a look though.

Since I work in Linux and primarily code in languages like C and C++ (i.e. compiled langs), I work completely in the terminal, so I don't use any GUI. It's nice and I'm already there for my compiling so I might as well use it for git.

However, re remembering all the commands, there is a nifty website I found a while ago and bookmarked called Git Explorer where you basically choose from dropdowns of what you want to do and it gives you the command(s) for it.

I use GitKraken. It has a beautiful interface. It's free to use non-commercially but I pay $50/yr so that it can connect to my companies Enterprise account. I know I'm weak with git (I get the concepts but I'm a visual person) so the money is worth it to me.

I've used https://www.sublimemerge.com and https://www.sourcetreeapp.com but I think i prefer to just use my terminal most of the time...

I have some git blame extention in VSCode, but otherwise no. Something about using gui tool for git makes me feel so disconnected from it, like I'm not entirely sure what's going on, and afraid I'm going to fuck something up

Also, I forget commands all the time. Mostly ones I don't use often, like changing/adding/removing remotes, changing settings, etc.

If you have trouble remembering git commands for CLI have a look at the tool tldr:

https://man.archlinux.org/man/tldr.1.en

For example if you need to remember how to use the branch command you could look it up with

tldr git branch

which would give you an overview on the most popular use cases.

I use GitHub Desktop - offered by GitHub themself. Its a GUI application where you can fetch, push, pull etc. But mostly just basic github "commands".

https://desktop.github.com/

Tower on Mac is excellent, tig in terminal is also very powerful once you read the help/man pages!

I use github desktop since I'm not using git a lot, and that gui is very easy to understand

i just use Visual Studio or VS Code

I use TortoiseGit.

The log window gives me overview and almost every action I need. Committing, diffing, switching, rebasing, creating and deleting branches and tags, pushing, fetching, merging, view logs of files, blaming, filtering…

The log view is still much better than the VS Git log view. And due to it's visual GUI it's much better than CLI when going beyond just one branch or a low number of my own branches.

I use Git Tower and I love it. I'm surprised I don't see it mentioned here.

JetBrains have some quite extensive VC tooling built into their IDEs which I use almost exclusively. I used to do everything in the terminal, but I find it so much quicker and simpler to do it directly in the IDE.

I use GitKraken, which is pretty great, but for a lot of day to day stuff I just end up using the CLI

I mostly use CLI but sometimes SourceTree, it's neat

I used to use GitKraken at my old job and loved it most of the time, slick UI and generally did what you wanted to do.

I'm using Atlassian SourceTree at my current place since it's what they give us and it's...fine. Not as nice as GitKraken.

I mainly use them because I originally used TFS's TFVC when I started my career and when we transitioned to Git, I started out using a GUI so never really learned to use the CLI.

If you're already comfortable working in the shell, you should check out tig. It's not as fully featured as the other clients named here, but it's an excellent viewer nevertheless.

I kinda do both? For some reason, I prefer the CLI when I clone a repo, but Sourcetree for committing, pulling, and pushing, and my IDE's built in git tools for merges.

I mostly use the CLI, but I occasionally use fork when a GUI is needed

You can set aliases for CLI.

I mainly program in Visual Studio so I use it's integration for simple commits, diffs, and checkouts. Anything more complicated than that I head for the command line.

Tig is a pretty nice terminal gui