I use Tower and I love it. I've been using it for 2 years now and I'm so glad I paid for it. It has been so critical my git workflow.
Ask HN: GUI Git client for macOS recommendations
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Re: Ask HN: GUI Git client for macOS recommendations
#12Why don't you learn keyboard shortcuts in ST? Of course clicking the files you want to commit is necessary (or just do select all). Then CMD+SHIFT+C for commit, then CMD+ENTER for committing. Not sure how you make it into 6 clicks even using the mouse.
Re: Ask HN: GUI Git client for macOS recommendations
#13Cannot reccomend GitUp ( http://gitup.co/ ) enough. It's open source too. That said, I use it differently to you; I use a graphical Git client mostly to view and browse around the commit graph, and I generally make commits and stuff like that from the CLI. I think it's pretty simple to do commits through GitUp as well.
I have the same workflow as you and GitUp works great.
Re: Ask HN: GUI Git client for macOS recommendations
#14GitX is buggy and terrible and yet it still has the best staging interface I've used. I don't use any other features though, and just do those on the command line, because they're easier, but a GUI is much better than "add -p".
GitUp is a good GitX replacement.
Re: Ask HN: GUI Git client for macOS recommendations
#15Why don't you learn keyboard shortcuts in ST? Of course clicking the files you want to commit is necessary (or just do select all). Then CMD+SHIFT+C for commit, then CMD+ENTER for committing. Not sure how you make it into 6 clicks even using the mouse.
That might be the way forward, good call.
Here's my workflow -- and please bear in mind I'm a new SourceTree user, not yet proficient:
* make changes to source files
* switch to ST (cmd+tab or mouse click #1)
* click (#2) commit
* fill in commit details
* click (#3) `Sign off` checkbox
* click (#4) `Commit mode` dropdown, then `Selected files`
* click (#5) `Push commits immediately to [...]` checkbox
* click (#6) `Commit` button
I'm sure I could make this a more streamlined workflow. Research continues.
Edit: formatting.
Re: Ask HN: GUI Git client for macOS recommendations
#16I use GitHub Desktop and am really happy with it. It works for non-GitHub repos too
Thanks for this. The GitHub Desktop is what I've come from, and it's almost too easy to use. I suspect I'm letting it taint my workflow for SourceTree, especially with all the additional stuff that SourceTree offers.
Re: Ask HN: GUI Git client for macOS recommendations
#17GitX is buggy and terrible and yet it still has the best staging interface I've used. I don't use any other features though, and just do those on the command line, because they're easier, but a GUI is much better than "add -p".
There are also a couple of forks of GitX, and IIRC Google doesn't bring the best-maintained one to the top of search results. You may have to dig a bit to find it.
The tree visualization in GitX is also pretty decent as such things go.
Re: Ask HN: GUI Git client for macOS recommendations
#18Cannot reccomend GitUp ( http://gitup.co/ ) enough. It's open source too. That said, I use it differently to you; I use a graphical Git client mostly to view and browse around the commit graph, and I generally make commits and stuff like that from the CLI. I think it's pretty simple to do commits through GitUp as well.
I have the same workflow as you and GitUp works great.
Is there a nice Windows version of something similar? GitUp looks awesome!
Re: Ask HN: GUI Git client for macOS recommendations
#19GitUp is a good app. Beautiful UX, pretty simple to do commits.
Re: Ask HN: GUI Git client for macOS recommendations
#20I don't like write git command in terminal. I like GitX ;)