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Recommend a GUI client for git? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social to c/programming@kbin.social

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I was looking at video reviews of git GUI clients. The best ones are pricey and we are two people occasionally editing some webpages for our business website. It’s hosted on GitLab Pages.

Can anyone recommend something straightforward? I’ll be sticking to the terminal but my colleague is new to code repositories.

Git GUI is free, but looks terrible IMO. Sublime have a nice one and it’s not subscription based, but is expensive. We are both on Mac usually.

Another alternative I considered was showing them the three terminal commands I use mainly (add, commit and push) and then let them edit from the file manager itself. But because they’ll be doing this so rarely, it might be easy to forget.

Edit: I’ve settled on a few to try out: sourcetree, fork, gitup and the one by Sublime. The conversation doesn’t have to end there, but thanks for the help. So many great answers here :)

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[–] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not gui, but tui, lazygit is my favourite. It's got all the features you could need, help with ?, and doesn't limit stashes like github desktop for litterally no reason. If that doesn't work for you have you tried github desktop?

[–] corytheboyd@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

lazygit is by far the best git ui imo. you have to give a shit to learn how to use it correctly (same goes for any tool), but the developer has made fantastic demo videos explaining the features. He has clearly used git professionally for a long time, and built something to solve the exact real-world git problems.

I guess I wouldn’t give lazygit to someone with no git experience… I would set up some branch protection rules asap so they can’t use a ui to force reset a main branch or something.

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I was impressed with that video (linked in another comment I think).

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

LazyGit is something that I’ll definitely test out for my own use, thank you so much!. I’ll see what they think of it too.

I’ve looked at a video comparison which included GitHub Desktop and it seemed unintuitive to me. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4cX4HeN6lH8

But it was compared against top-tier clients like Git Kraken so maybe it’s better than the impression I was left with. Actually, I think I’ll test it out too and show it to them along with LazyGit and Fork. Thanks again.