Comment by welly

7 years ago

If you're on a mac, I can't recommend Tower enough. It's a paid app but well worth the money. Otherwise Git Kraken is a foss offering that is also excellent.

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Ajedi32  7 years ago

Git Kraken isn't FOSS. The site says "Free for non-commercial use", and AFAIK the source isn't available anywhere.

I think maybe the term you're looking for is "freeware"?

  • welly  7 years ago

    Ah, you're quite right. I was under the impression it was FOSS - I used it a while ago, preferred Tower and so went back to that.

mistersquid  7 years ago

I second your recommendation of Tower. About a year ago, I made a comment right here on HN singing Tower's praise names. [0]

It's impossible to sing those names loudly enough.

  [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12677542

dewey  7 years ago

I want to second that. Also the integration with diff tools like Kaleidoscope is a nice touch. (Even though Kaleidoscope feels like abandonware at this point)

Froyoh  7 years ago

How is atlassian's Sourcetree?

  • prewett  7 years ago

    I like it a lot, it make git as simple as mercurial. I don't think it is hiding complexity, but the visual arrangement makes sense. The staging area becomes actually useful, and I love that you can stage (or revert) pieces of a file, which is handy when you forgot to commit one thing before moving on to the next.

    I've only had to merge a branch once, and here I was completely confused on what was going end. This may be SourceTree's fault or git's fault. Maybe my lack of understanding.

    I hate git, I don't understand git, I don't want to have to understand git, and I think the command line interface makes every UI error in the book. But SourceTree has made me like git.

  • welly  7 years ago

    We have a bunch of projects that are stored in a mercurial repo so I've been using Sourcetree for that as I've found MacHG pretty unusable. I think it's pretty good, not as good in my opinion (the UI, mainly) as Tower for Mac which I use for Git, but makes Mercurial easy to use for this (somewhat) hardened Git user.