I ask because I like console, but at the same time have difficulties remembering all the commands. I’d like to try a GUI that is comfortable to use with only a keyboard.
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    • Kaldo@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Came here to recommend it too, really neat and practical tool and I haven’t found a better alternative yet. Honestly I don’t know why are people so against GUI git tools, it makes visualizing branches and commits so much more easier. I don’t think you can use it only with your keyboard as OP asked though, dunno how important that is to them.

    • BentiGorlich@thebrainbin.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      I am using it too and I love it. I only know source tree as a competitor and in comparision it sucks…

      You dont have to pay for it, even when using it comercially (unpess they changed that)

      • Modal@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        It has a “free evaluation” that I think can be as long as you want it to be / honor system.
        Its been worth it to me to pick up a license and support the development though. Its reasonably priced (for a dev tool) / no subscription and definitely beats the free clients I was using before (Sourcetree/GithubDesktop).

  • exu@feditown.com
    9·
    1 year ago

    Magit with emacs (doom emacs to be fully honest). More a TUI, but definitely fully keyboard driven :)

    • dolle@feddit.dk
      1·
      1 year ago

      Same here. I don’t even use emacs for development anymore (I use IntelliJ since all my work is on the JVM and Typescript) but I still have an emacs running in the background for magit and org-mode. Magit is insanely effective for performing complex rebasing and cherry-picking tasks.

  • narc0tic_bird@beehaw.org
    6·
    1 year ago

    I use a mix of CLI, the Git UI built into VSCode, and Sublime Merge.

    Sublime Merge is great for getting an overview, it’s very snappy (especially when compared to Electron Git UIs), and I love the merge conflict editor. It’s not cheap, but worth every penny.

        • arandomthought@vlemmy.net
          1·
          1 year ago

          My thought exactly every time the little nagware window pops up in sublime text (obviously from the same creators as sublime merge).

          “Would I like to pay for this awesome piece of software? Yes. Do I have the money for that right now? No.”

  • CosmicBlend@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    I used to use SourceTree but it runs horribly and switched to Fork years ago and never looked back. I use VSCode for merge conflict resolution.

  • Djoot@feddit.dk
    5·
    1 year ago

    Lazygit changed how I use git, it is so easy to do all the daily essentials like branching, committing, and merging, but also also does more advanced things like interactive rebasing when needed.

    I had searched for a proper git client, that was free and open source plus worked on both Linux and Windows, for a long time and I haven’t looked back after finding lazygit.

  • corytheboyd@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    These days I can run everything I need to with the git cli. I use the JetBrains visual merge tool to resolve conflicts, because doing that by hand is so awfully error prone, it very very intuitively maps to a visual process

  • vraylle@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    I actually like the tooling built into VS Code. Added the GitHub Pull Requests and Issues extension for the PRs, pretty happy with it all at the moment. Before that I like a specific older version of SourceTree that didn’t forget your credentials.

  • kryostar@beehaw.org
    4·
    1 year ago

    My inbox got fediversized, fantastic feeling.

    Hey hey hey, I want that too!

    As for git, I just use the plugin on VS code. Nothing fancy. I didn’t even know there’s other options like GUI to be honest.

  • s_w@beehaw.org
    4·
    1 year ago

    I use IntelliJ’s built-in git GUI.

    I don’t understand why people use command line only. Sure, learn the commands so if you need to use them you can, but most GUIs are far more feature rich than command line. With IntelliJ, I can easily view differences before committing, have it do code quality scans, automatically clean up any code it can, more easily choose which files I want to commit vs the typical ‘git add .’ I see most people do with command line, have separate changelists when pair programming, and much more.

    One argument that continually comes up is that command line is faster. I completely disagree. If I want to just commit the code without reviewing it, I can use 2 hot keys and the code is committed and pushed. But as I do a quick readthrough of all the code first and review issues from the code quality analysis it does take more time, but still less than it would to do comparable things with command line.

    • dbanty@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      The IntelliJ merge UI is the only way I ever want to deal with merge conflicts. So much better than any of the alternatives I’ve tried!

    • pinkpatrol@anarch.is
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m a heavy intellij user, but the git log UI always confuses me. When I open ‘git log’ via the action menu IntelliJ doesn’t focus my current branch. I am not sure if there’s some other menu I’m supposed to use to achieve that.

      I do use the commit local changes, pull changes, merge branches functionality a good bit. My only feedback there is that I haven’t found a way to quickly commit changes without running git hooks. Each time it requires me to open up the gear icon and deselect ‘git hooks’. This is slower than using the command line where I can write git commit --no-verify and repeat the same command again and again. I know it’s a niche need, but it’s necessary for testing a rather archaic system we maintain.

  • Orvanis@lemm.ee
    4·
    1 year ago

    TortoiseGit user here. Love that it integrates with Windows Explorer so I don’t have to constantly be opening an app first to fire off some Git commands.