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Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

MehreenTahir23-Jul-20 10:09

MehreenTahir

23-Jul-20 10:09

I usually work with visual studio code but I'm afraid that doesn't fall under Git UI but more bash. On the contrary, GitHub Desktop serves the purpose quite well.

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

Mircea Neacsu23-Jul-20 10:59

Mircea Neacsu

23-Jul-20 10:59

TortoiseGit with WinMerge for diffing. Started using it from the time of TortoiseCVS and never changed. Love to see the stuff I forgot to commit by just opening File Explorer.

Mircea

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

Martin Hart Turner23-Jul-20 20:19

Martin Hart Turner

23-Jul-20 20:19

Exactly the same here, a great implantation and so easy to use.

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

Riz Thon23-Jul-20 21:27

Riz Thon

23-Jul-20 21:27

Same here. I added Control TortoiseGit from within Visual Studio[^] to access it fast.

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

fd975023-Jul-20 21:44

fd9750

23-Jul-20 21:44

Yep, by far the most logical and intuitive combination. I have used multiple others and they do not even come close.

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

Jim Knopf jr.23-Jul-20 22:19

Jim Knopf jr.

23-Jul-20 22:19

Same here. It's so easy to use and the icons in file explorer show you the state.

But there is (or was) a limitation on the number of modified icons that Windows could handle. A really small number like 16 or so. Installing another package first which also modifies the icons, you might not see the advantage of the icons, because they are listed but not shown when exceeding the limit. No error message either. Unfortunately I don't remember which version of Windows had this restriction.

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

Citorix24-Jul-20 8:54

Citorix

24-Jul-20 8:54

Even Windows 10 only support 15 overlay icons. See also cito.github.io/blog/overlay-icon-battle/.

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

MikeTheFid24-Jul-20 3:51

MikeTheFid

24-Jul-20 3:51

I too use TortoiseGit (also Visual Studio), but for merging I've never found anything better than Beyond Compare.

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Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

Mircea Neacsu24-Jul-20 3:55

Mircea Neacsu

24-Jul-20 3:55

Heard many good things of it but it's paid and I'm a cheap bastard Smile | :)

Mircea

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

jdbos24-Jul-20 5:22

jdbos

24-Jul-20 5:22

Me, too. I occasionally look around at the alternatives but I have found nothing that beats Tortoise Git in terms of ease of use, functionality, and integration with Windows. And I also prefer WinMerge (especially the new version) over Tortoise Merge.

I wish Tortoise Git were available on Linux, because I use that sometimes too. The best I have found so far on Linux is GitEye, which comes pretty close to Tortoise Git in functionality and style.

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

MSBassSinger23-Jul-20 11:53

MSBassSinger

23-Jul-20 11:53

Team Explorer in Visual Studio.

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

Andy Brummer23-Jul-20 12:33

Andy Brummer

23-Jul-20 12:33

I learned using source tree, but have switched over to doing most everything except conflict resolution using the command line tools. For that, I like VSCode the best, over any of the side by side diff tools that I've used. I also prefer rebasing over merging whenever I can, but that's a team decision.

Curvature of the Mind now with 3D

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

Jon McKee23-Jul-20 12:41

Jon McKee

23-Jul-20 12:41

I've only ever used the GitHub Desktop UI. It's simple and easy to use for the most common git tasks and for the hard ones it can start up a git shell. Personally I just use a shell now though. Not because the GUI is bad or anything, but I was responsible for the repo on a project and found myself mostly in the shell so I'm just used to it now.

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

Maximilien23-Jul-20 12:50

Maximilien

23-Jul-20 12:50

tortoise, mostly because I used it for SubVersion.

I installed/tried/uninstall many git tools.

We started using Azure DevOps, so I will try the integrated VS tools

I'd rather be phishing!

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

Jacquers23-Jul-20 19:01

Jacquers

23-Jul-20 19:01

Sourcetree. It has the Git flow workflow which we use.

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

Efe Erdoğru23-Jul-20 19:50

Efe Erdoğru

23-Jul-20 19:50

Tortoise Git

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

GuyThiebaut23-Jul-20 20:14

GuyThiebaut

23-Jul-20 20:14

Git Extensions - but I only use Git on home projects.

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Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

Jacquers23-Jul-20 20:18

Jacquers

23-Jul-20 20:18

Visual Studio Code's Git Lens is useful as well.

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

Mark Jerzykowski23-Jul-20 21:21

Mark Jerzykowski

23-Jul-20 21:21

I have used many a git client but for the last year have been using fork Fork - a fast and friendly git client for Mac and Windows[^]. You have to pay for it these days but it’s well worth it in my opinion.

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

Member 916705723-Jul-20 21:27

Member 9167057

23-Jul-20 21:27

Not a UI, but a user interface all right: gitless.com I suggest checking it out, I'm not fully versed in it (yet), but so far, it seems like it greatly simplifies common uses cases.
Running it on Windows through WSL.

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

Member 1330167923-Jul-20 21:36

Member 13301679

23-Jul-20 21:36

I use the cli that comes with my distro. On the rare occasion I work on our one and only Windows product, I use git bash.

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

Stuart Dootson23-Jul-20 23:35

Stuart Dootson

23-Jul-20 23:35

A mix of command-line & GitKraken. I'm not averse to Fork either - especially for those repos I have that are very large (they have 15 years or history, having been migrated from SourceSafe through Subversion and Mercurial to (now) Git).

Why migrate from Mercurial to Git? To take advantage of Azure DevOps availability in our (large) company rather than having to maintain a Mercurial server... And also because the writing on the wall is writ large at this point...

Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

cramotowski24-Jul-20 1:59

cramotowski

24-Jul-20 1:59

Bash is by far the most straightforward interface.
For visualization of branches, source tree does a fine job.
Bash can be very fast though, especially if you use aliases to shortcut common commands.
Shells are interfaces for users in case anyone is confused by my response.
GUIs are a specialization of UIs also 😏

Case

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

Shawn_Eary24-Jul-20 2:54

Shawn_Eary

24-Jul-20 2:54

I prefer to use Visual Studio 2019 as my Git UI and Git Bash for whatever I can't do in the main VS IDE. I like to keep it simple.

Re: Your preferred Git UI (if any)?

Daniel Pfeffer24-Jul-20 3:41

Daniel Pfeffer

24-Jul-20 3:41

Visual Studio (in Windows) or the command line (in Linux, or for complex stuff in Windows).

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