Git Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Windows and Mac
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Re: Git Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Windows and Mac
#2Our whole team works with git fork and we're really happy with it. You can browse the repo at a specific commit, branch, merge, rebase and blame everything from the gui. I rarely need to fall back to the command line and there's even the option to add custom commands to the gui. And it's really fast, even with multiple repos.
Just had an issue today and Dan replied in less than 5 minutes. Thumbs Up
Re: Git Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Windows and Mac
#3I can't imagine using a paid, closed-source git client when https://github.com/desktop/desktop and https://github.com/Murmele/Gittyup are both great.
Maybe 10 years ago, but not now that open-source alternatives are so mature and feature-rich.
Re: Git Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Windows and Mac
#4This looks neat, but I don’t see anything off hand that will pull me away from my current git tower + kaleidoscope ~rut~ workflow.
In particular, the drag & drop rebase support in tower is very convenient. Kaleidoscope is capable of all kinds of diffing but the text conflict resolution is probably the feature that I use the most.
Re: Git Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Windows and Mac
#5I can't imagine using a paid, closed-source git client when https://github.com/desktop/desktop and https://github.com/Murmele/Gittyup are both great. Maybe 10 years ago, but not now that open-source alternatives are so mature and feature-rich.
Never used gittyup but last time I tried the github desktop app was years behind gittower in terms of functionality & features provided.
If you’re earning money developing software but refuse to pay for tools, in my personal and not at all humble opinion, you’re part of The Problem.
Re: Git Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Windows and Mac
#6I discovered this on the day pandemic was declared, god this tool is well polished and is so great.
It is closed source but that shouldn’t be a blocker, its not like every app we use is open-source and not everyone is going to take a look under the hood.
I think it was a two people team(a couple) if Im not wrong. Awesome work guys!
Re: Git Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Windows and Mac
#7Fork is the only GUI in Mac performant enough to handle my work monorepo. That alone would be sufficient, but it's also a stellar client with great support for things like interactively rebasing and handling merges. I can do roughly everything I need, faster, in its UI.
Re: Git Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Windows and Mac
#8Does this handle LFS file-locking? Very handy for repos with lots of binaries (eg game dev), but also almost wholly unimplemented in the most popular Git GUI clients.
Re: Git Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Windows and Mac
#9I love Fork, it just seems to work the way I expect such a tool to behave. Also very snappy, even with large diffs.
I do wish it were available on Linux as well.
Re: Git Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Windows and Mac
#10This looks neat, but I don’t see anything off hand that will pull me away from my current git tower + kaleidoscope ~rut~ workflow. In particular, the drag & drop rebase support in tower is very convenient. Kaleidoscope is capable of all kinds of diffing but the text conflict resolution is probably the feature that I use the most.
I used to use tower, but I switched to fork for two reasons - it was more performant with my work monorepo, and fork's a one time payment and tower's an annual subscription (and more expensive). I'm not affiliated with them at all but I'm a happy customer and recommend you give it a shot; they have a free trial.