GitKraken: git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux

Post by dvirsky » Wed, Mar 02, 2016, 12:44 PM UTC

seanp2k2 wrote: post #130

dvirsky wrote: post #120

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I use both with git, nothing wrong with that. A GUI client for committing which allows me to better look at diffs and makes selecting files for staging easier, not having to do `git status` all the time; and the command line for everything else - pulls, merges, rebases, cherry picking etc etc.

You might also like: https://github.com/magicmonty/bash-git-prompt Basically shows you 'git status' at a glance, all the time. More for bash people: https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it (similar to ooh my zsh) https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell#for-developers PyCharm / any IntelliJ-based IDE, Atom, vim, emacs etc can also all nicely show git status of your current project. I'd suggest one of those as well in what…

Post by JohnBooty » Wed, Mar 02, 2016, 1:14 PM UTC

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I don't think this is a dealbreaker for 99% of people. I currently use Tower ( https://www.git-tower.com/ ), a closed-source Mac Git client that costs $70. It's beautiful, it speeds up my work day to day, and it's been worth every cent. Open source is great and I spend my days building an open-source mail client, but I have no problem paying for great tools.

As a long time git command line user, I've played with different GUI clients, but I don't see where it would speed me up (and in fact, they seem to just slow me down). What about it helps you in your day to day coding? Do you interact with git exclusively through a GUI, or do you use some mix of command line and GUI?

Post by dragonwriter » Wed, Mar 02, 2016, 1:37 PM UTC

radarsat1 wrote: post #154

0942v8653 wrote: post #3

Not open source: http://www.gitkraken.com/faq

Which is weird, seeing as the git license is GPL 2. I mean, I find it weird that one can build a product completely around a GPL project, and somehow not make it GPL. The whole point of the GPL is to restrict derivatives. Yet, somehow this has been mutated to become "links to a library," as if the technical fact that the product links to some code over an API boundary is different, legally speaking, than calling it w…

Post by kybernetyk » Wed, Mar 02, 2016, 1:37 PM UTC

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I hate to be that guy, but you're paying $70 for that? What does that offer over, say SourceTree, Atlassian's free offering. From a quick glance, they look pretty similar to me.

Am I the only one who remembers when $70 was cheap for anything development related? Either it's good enough to save you 5-10 minutes a day where it's obviously worth $70 or it's not, and isn't worth any price (well maybe a dollar or two if you are, say, a collector of git clients).

Post by kybernetyk » Wed, Mar 02, 2016, 1:45 PM UTC

ajross wrote: post #51

mbilker wrote: post #50

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Yet you can extract the embedded app.asar and get the source code if you so please. There may be native libraries that are closed source. This is another Electron app after all.

That's almost certainly not the point being made. Building a workflow around non-free development tools means that eventually you're going to find support for your favored tool evaporating.