Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

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Post by archagon » Wed, Jul 24, 2019, 1:05 AM UTC

Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows
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Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

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Post by archagon » Wed, Jul 24, 2019, 1:05 AM UTC

Not my work, but this is one of the most impressive Git clients I've extensively used — and it's free. Tons of features, lots of thought put into usability, and fully native. If this were a $50 product, I'd happily pay it, but there's not even a donation link.

Just wanted to share!

Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

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Post by abc_lisper » Wed, Jul 24, 2019, 3:17 AM UTC

Yeah, please put a donation link. I would happily pay if I enjoy using it

Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

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Post by SenHeng » Wed, Jul 24, 2019, 3:22 AM UTC

For Mac users, nothing beats GitUp[0]

0: https://gitup.co

Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

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Post by undergrowth54 » Wed, Jul 24, 2019, 3:24 AM UTC

Alongside a donation link, you should put a "purchase a license" or "purchase a subscription" link. That way, an engineer can upload the resulting receipt to expensify and get reimbursed by their employer.

Employers are used to paying for software licenses out of engineering budgets; Donations would generally come out of a different budget managed by someone an engineer doesn't work with day-to-day.

Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

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Post by em-bee » Wed, Jul 24, 2019, 4:10 AM UTC

SenHeng wrote: post #4

For Mac users, nothing beats GitUp[0] 0: https://gitup.co

could you elaborate how it compares to fork and why it would be better?

as someone who is training developers, cross-platform is a critical feature. gitup fails on that. on the other hand it's FOSS, another critical feature for me. fork fails on that one.

so it's a tossup, and i probably can't recommend either for those reasons.

Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

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Post by mehrdadn » Wed, Jul 24, 2019, 4:18 AM UTC

What distinguishes it from TortoiseGit on Windows?

Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

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Post by amiantos » Wed, Jul 24, 2019, 4:33 AM UTC

SenHeng wrote: post #4

For Mac users, nothing beats GitUp[0] 0: https://gitup.co

I use GitUp as my primary git client, but I switch to Fork to handle complicated rebasing. Fork’s “interactive rebase” tool is fantastic, if GitUp had it I’d never need to switch away. I actually registered a HN account just to say this about Fork, it’s that helpful to me.

Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

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Post by lioeters » Wed, Jul 24, 2019, 4:34 AM UTC

Happy user of Fork here. I switched a few months ago from SourceTree, as it was getting laggy due to having a large number of repos.

Fork is a performant Git GUI client, well-designed with most practical features you could want. It's a native app written separately for macOS and Windows - though they might use their own cross-platform library, I seem to recall reading about it.

Anyway, it's excellent software, I'm willing to pay to support development.

Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

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Post by latchkey » Wed, Jul 24, 2019, 4:42 AM UTC

Just downloaded it from the link on the website and the downloaded version was one release behind, which means an immediate ~50meg download again. Please be considerate of people on slow/remote/expensive connections.