Fork Review

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SpecsUpdate

PlatformsWindows, macOS

Price$50

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Pros

Pro
Fast and easy to use

Pro
Dark theme support

Pro
Comfortable when staging line-by-line changes

This feature is superior to the one that is implemented by SourceTree as it does not reset the file scroll view to the top of the file after each stage.

If you do feature-specific commits after some time of development - it's very important to be able to easily compose the commit from different line-based changes.

Pro
Highlights the difference within a line

Pro
Smart Diff is very handy

Pro
Merge Conflict Resolution is great

Pro
Free (for the moment)

The majority of work on Fork is done in the developers' spare time and, despite requests from the Fork community (who are keen to support the app), the product is still free. The developers are open about the possibility that they might make it a paid app at some point in the future, but the price is expected to be low and it will not be on a subscription basis.

Pro
Overall aesthetic

The GUI components are flawless on the Mac. It is expected to be a similar experience on Windows. Once you realize that you can filter by branch, your appreciation for the product will go up dramatically.

Pro
Comfortable keyboard shortcuts

Pro
Tabbed interface

Several repos can be open at once in individual tabs, so it's trivial to switch back and forth between them.

Pro
Repositories with uncommitted changes have a * next to their name

This is an update from previous versions.

Cons

Con
Requires granting access to your git projects for the developer of the app

Con
Still a young client, thus not as feature rich

This git GUI client is quite young compared to industry old-timers like git-tower 2 or SourceTree. So it's not as feature rich as you'd like. Still a very capable client for a simple day-to-day work.