20 best alternatives to Git for Windows as of 2025

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Cons

Top Con

Too complicated

It's complicated to use as it requires moving files to/from wsl to base windows. See More

Top Pro

Light resource usage unlike virtual machines

There's no VM overhead because WSL is not a VM. See More

Top Con

You can't mix and match installations - utilities added to the subsystem are only available in the subsystem

If you install node in the Windows subsystem, it is not available in Windows, only in the subsystem and vice versa. See More

Top Pro

Includes common UNIX utilities

Windows Subsystem for Linux comes with common UNIX utilities such as grep, awk, etc. See More

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Supports multiple Linux distributions

WSL supports multiple Linux distros, and you can use the distro's package manager (e.g. apt-get on Ubuntu) to install other tools and binaries. See More

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Runs native Linux tools

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tig

Top Pro

Allows you to stay in the terminal

If you prefer to do most of your development inside the terminal, changing windows to move to a GUI git client can be annoying. Since tig runs inside the terminal, that's avoided. See More

Top Con

Steeper barrier to entry as compared to a GUI solution

Since you have to get used to working in the terminal (if you are not already used to doing that) and learn the commands, it has a steeper learning curve than GUI clients which are usually more intuitive and easier to grasp. See More

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Fast

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Vim-like bindings

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Available in Homebrew

Can easily be installed with homebrew simply by running brew install tig See More

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Works on any platform

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

Technology:C

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88 6

Sublime Merge

Top Pro

Pure Git behind the scenes

All actions are real Git actions which minimizes confusion and makes it perfect for beginners and professionals alike. See More

Top Con

Too expensive

And they're continuing to increase the price over the time, from the $60 that was at the start. See More

Top Pro

Speed

Nothing is faster. I used to use Gitkraken, but on large projects Gitkraken is barely usable. See More

Top Pro

Very keyboard friendly

All actions have either direct hotkeys or corresponding entries in the palette (same as Sublime Text). This means a very streamlined and fast usage. See More

Top Pro

No account info needed

No account- or server checkbacks (only for updates). All password handling is pure Git which means much less trouble and confusion. See More

Top Pro

Portable version

Windows portable version. See More

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"Native" performance (Python based)

Very good performance. See More

Top Pro

Using the trial version forever without limitations

Sublime Merge may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however, a license must be purchased for continued use. There is no enforced time limit for the evaluation. See More

Top Pro

Lifetime testing

The product is paid but you can test for your life without paying (similar to sublime text). See More

Top Pro

Excellent user interface

The user interface is designed excellently, and it's really fast to navigate with mouse or keyboard. It's never obscured which git commands are used, and commands can be modified/extended if desired. The visual appearance of the interface can be changed via themes, new git commands can be added, and even the menus can be extended. See More

Top Pro

Not subscription based

A license gives you 3 years of updates, and you can use the product after that indefinitely. See More

Top Pro

Bundled license available with Sublime Text (which is an amazing text editor)

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

Features:Line Staging, Syntax Highlighting, Image Diffs, Merge Tool, Git Flow Integration, Submodule Management, Themes, Custom Commands

Pricing:FREE evaluation without time limit, $99 for personal license (including updates for 3 years), $75 per seat and year for business license, $168 for personal license bundle including Sublime Text (3 years of updates)

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Magit

Top Con

Useful only for people who use Emacs

Magit is only useful if your text editor of choice is Emacs. It wouldn't really make any sense to open up emacs just to run Magit if you use another editor. See More

Top Pro

Uninterrupted workflow for common tasks

Simple tasks, such as commits, can quickly be made without leaving the editor. See More

Top Pro

Diffs are easy

Since it's integrated with Emacs, diffs are very easy to fix. You can jump right to any file you want to fix as soon as it comes up in the logs or in the status view. See More

Top Pro

Easy to remember mnemonics

You can easily learn the mnemonics for the most common tasks and use them to your advantage to speed up your workflow. See More

Top Pro

Better visualization and interactive workflow

Top Pro

Stage hunks or even just parts of a hunk using a single key press

In Magit staging a hunk or even just part of a hunk is very easy. Magit also implements several other "apply variants" in addition to staging and unstaging. For example: you can also discard or reverse a change, or apply it to the working tree. See More

Top Pro

Blame information can be viewed inline with the file

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Multiple buffers are used to show contextual information

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Powerful rebasing

Top Pro

Available in Homebrew

brew install magit See More

Specs

Platforms:Any supported by Emacs (Linux, Windows,macOS,*BSD...)

License:GPLv3

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Intellij IDEA

Top Pro

Free version available

There is a free community edition (open source) and an ultimate edition, which you can compare here. The ultimate edition is available for free for one year for students but must be registered through an .edu e-mail account. See More

Top Con

Bugs are not solved as often as they should

They are more interested in adding new features or issuing new versions than solving bugs. See More

Top Pro

Fast and smart contextual assistance

Uses a fast indexing technique to provide contextual hints (auto-completion, available object members, import suggestions). On-the-fly code analysis to detect errors and propose refactorization. See More

Top Con

Somewhat expensive

IntelliJ IDEA is fairly expensive, with a pricetag of $149/year. However there is a free community edition available. See More

Top Pro

Intuitive and slick UI

IDEA has a clean, intuitive interface with some customization available (such as the Darcula theme). See More

Top Con

Built with closed source components

The version with full features is not opensource. Parts of the code are under apache licence though. See More

Top Pro

Stable and robust

IntelliJ IDEA hardly ever crashes or has any issues that plague other Java IDEs like file corruption or slowness. See More

Top Con

Lack of plugins

IntelliJ supports a very small amount of plugins. Althrough thesse are 'quality approved', many features are missing and can't be implemented because of that. See More

Top Pro

Support for many languages

IntelliJ supports many languages besides Java, some of these are: golang, Scala, Clojure, Groovy, Bash, etc... See More

Top Con

Standard hotkeys behave differently

Seems like hotkeys assignment in Idea has no logical consistency. Like «F3» is usually next match, «Ctrl+W» - close tab, etc — they map to some different action by default. There is a good effort in making the IDE friendly for immigrants from other products: there are options to use hotkeys from Eclipse, and even emacs. But these mappings are very incomplete. And help pages do not take this remapping into account, rather mentioning the standard hotkeys. So, people coming from other IDEs/editors are doomed to using mouse and context menus (which are rather big and complex). See More

Top Pro

Smart refactorings

IDEA places an emphasis in safe refactoring, offering a variety of features to make this possible for a variety of languages. These features include safe delete, type migration and replacing method code duplicates. See More

Top Pro

Lots of plugins

Many plugins are available for almost any task a developer may need to cover. Plugins are developed by Jetbrains themselves or by 3rd parties through the SDK available for writing them. See More

Top Pro

Android support, JavaEE support, etc

A very complete development environment support. See More

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Clear and detailed documentation

The documentation is exhaustive, easy to navigate, and clearly worded. See More

Top Pro

Very powerful debugger

With ability to step into a certain part of a large method invocation (Shift+F7), drop frame, executing code snippets, showing method return values, etc. See More

Top Pro

Many convenient features

These simplify the daily work, e.g. copy/cut a whole line without the need to select it. See More

Specs

License:Apache 2.0

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Visual Studio

Top Pro

Official IDE developed by Microsoft

If a project type or a platform is available for C#, it's available in Visual Studio. Some IDEs and code editors may cover some project types, but Microsoft always starts with VS. If you work with a cross-platform technology like ASP.NET MVC, it matters less. If you work with Windows-only technologies like UWP or WPF, you have no choice really. See More

Top Con

Slow & Buggy (on Mac)

Visual Studio can get very slow on Mac... this is partly due to bad UI framework used - GTK. Also, quite buggy and too often have to Force Quit and restart. See More

Top Pro

Free Community edition

Community edition is almost Pro edition, with just a few exceptions. Unlike old Express editions, it supports plugins. See More

Top Con

Professional pricing is a bit steep

The professional edition's pricing is endearing since it costs more than IntelliJ, however, you wouldn't need that if you're not developing for a enterprise. See More

Top Pro

Amazing coverage over languages

Supports many types of C, and java, as well as ruby and python. See More

Top Con

No Linux version

Top Pro

Excellent and broad range of plugins

The plugin development ecosystem is very mature and covers a lot of use cases. For example, it is often easy to find a plugin which allows you to have the keybindings of your preferred editor. See More

Top Con

Mac version sub-par

The Mac version has the same great Roslyn editor as Win and VS for Code. See More

Top Pro

Partial cross-platform support

Visual Studio runs on Windows and macOS, so even if you develop on a Mac you can still develop with Visual Studio. See More

Top Con

Too much storage eater for low-end PCs

For a particular task, you need to install workspaces. Workspaces mainly take up to 50 GB. See More

Top Pro

It can run c#, c++, etc.

You can use too many programming lang. And you can select them! Like "I want to do this, not this". See More

Top Pro

Cloud storage

Your Visual Studio Online account gives you a place to store your code, backlog, and other project data with no servers to deploy, configure, or manage. See More

Top Pro

Supported by ReSharper and other plugins

Code productivity tools improve code editing experience greatly, provide static code analysis, refactorings, navigation etc. They are considered by many developers as essential. See More

Top Pro

Fast-paced development iteration

Fast-paced development iteration from the Microsoft team, with new versions and fixes almost every week. See More

Top Pro

Comes With the .NET Framework

Top Pro

Product backlog

In agile development teams one really needs features such as product backlogs where you can assign features to team mates and track their progress on them. VS provides a web based interface for you to track your team's complete progress on the project. See More

Top Pro

Fast

Top Pro

Time travel in debugging

Top Pro

Great UI for nugget packages

Top Pro

Flexible to install/adjust payloads

Top Pro

Same excellent Roslyn compiler/editor as VS for Code + powerful debugging tools

Top Pro

Good support and community

Top Pro

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Specs

Platforms:Windows, Mac & Linux

Git:yes

Bracket Matching:yes

Integrated Debugger:yes

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SmartGit

Top Pro

Free for non-commercial use (with some restrictions)

SmartGit can be used free of charge by Open Source developers, teachers and their students, or for hobby, non-paid usage. However, some features are only available with paid versions, like JIRA/GitHub Entreprise/Bitbucket integration, distributed review, DeepGit. See More

Top Con

Very expensive and no multi-user licences

91 EUR per year per person for the base version is more expensive than top development IDEs, and is exaggerated. No multi-user and no site licence either, which makes the licence management a pain. See More

Top Pro

Uncluttered UI

SmartGit has a rather clean and uncluttered user interface. All the most useful tools and information are displayed at all times or are otherwise just a couple of clicks away. All repositories are displayed in the sidebar and through a tabbed interface you can view various info about a specific repository (files, branches, branch graph, etc). The most used git commands like pull, push, sync, commit and merge are always available on top. See More

Top Con

Proprietary license

Not an open source license. See More

Top Pro

Easy to use

The clean and intuitive UI makes SmartGit very easy even for people with no prior experience with Git, even after reading just a bit on how Git works and what the main commands are. See More

Top Con

There is no lite version

A lite version would allow the user to do all the basic tasks quickly. If you need more complex tasks, you can also install the regular version beside it. A lite version would also be less memory hungry and would work on systems using low memory. See More

Top Pro

Great overview of the project/repository's log

SmartGit's log viewer displays the full commit history in a clean UI. This can be filtered to only show commits matching a certain criterion (e.g. branch). See More

Top Con

Free version doesn't support Gitlab Community Edition

It requires paid commercial version. See More

Top Pro

Supports GitFlow

GitFlow provides a consistent development process by defining a strict branching model that is great for managing large projects. SmartGit allows for setting up and integrating into repos that follow this model. See More

Top Con

It is slower than the older versions

As more and more features are adding, the more slow the application becomes. See More

Top Pro

Smart embedded difference viewer

When the changes affect only a few characters in a line of code, the embedded difference viewers in the majority of competitors (such as SourceTree) show the whole line as removed and re-added. SmartGit highlights the characters that have been removed / added, so they are easier to read. See More

Top Con

Diff display doesn't show long lines well

If changes are made in very long lines, the diff display is hard to navigate. See More

Top Pro

Can be integrated with Github, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Atlassian Stash

Using OAuth, you can connect SmartGit with your accounts in Github, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Stash and access the remote repositories there. You can then clone, fork, commit or push to your remote repositories from inside SmartGit. You can also view and manage pull requests for your open source projects from SmartGit. See More

Top Con

Absolute git beginners will find it very complicated

If you're just starting out with git, SmartGit might feel overwhelming as it does not dumb-down the complexities of git but exposes everything. See More

Top Pro

Has the most features and most logical layout

Compared to gitk, git gui, SourceTree, GitKraken. See More

Top Con

Font size too small and cannot be changed

Top Pro

Can edit file in workspace or index directly from the compare view

This is very useful when reviewing files before committing and finding a needed quick tweak. See More

Top Con

Unintuitive UI

At first glance, the sub windows are poorly organized. For example, there isn't an easy way to navigate the files in the repository. It's drastically differently designed than other popular source control clients. See More

Top Pro

Syntax coloring for many languages

The built-in compare and conflict solver has syntax coloring with customizable colors. See More

Top Con

Currently lacks support for git subtree

It's a useful feature when developing several independent project modules in parallel. See More

Top Pro

Auto stash

If normal Git commands would abort because of local modifications, SmartGit can stash them and apply later after the command ran successfully, e.g. a rebase. See More

Top Con

Requires non-beginner level of GIT to appreciate fully

Top Pro

Supports Mercurial & SVN

Apart from Git, SmartGit supports both Mercurial and SVN via a git bridge. See More

Top Con

Handling of git repository security tokens & credentials

The handling of git repository security tokens & credentials is bad: one usually has to ask google, read discussions and then start to use try & error to get working access. You would expect much more from software that calls itself smart. See More

Top Pro

Log with fine-grained display of branches

There is no option of just showing the current branch or all branches, but you can select very fine-grained what branches/forks should be displayed. See More

Top Con

Uses Atlassian JIRA for Support

Uses Atlassian JIRA for support. That requires you to provide Atlassian with personal information, including email addresses. Also doesn't work with JavaScript disabled. See More

Top Pro

Auto-detects repositories on disk

You don't have to search all the repositories when trying out SmartGit the 1st time, but it finds all of them magically. See More

Top Con

The top 5-10 git Use Cases are not intuitive without knowing git

SmartGit fails to abstract git in a way that makes it easy / intuitive to use. For software that calls itself smart, you would expect someone who has worked with any version of control software for years to get up to speed quickly with SmartGit - without studying the Git Manual. See More

Top Pro

Excellent dark theme

And support for own themes. See More

Top Con

Doesn' t support remote coding or WSL

To work alongside tools like VSCode it really needs to be able to work with remote code by ssh and on Windows support for running git within WSL where the code is being developed. See More

Top Pro

Allows rearranging views

If screen space is limited, one can stack some views onto another. 2 layouts are available - "Main" and "Review" - with independent view positions. See More

Top Con

Some git functionality has been renamed

In order to preserve the same interface across Git and Mercurial, some naming compromises have been made so that the various VCS it supports are all consistent with each other. See More

Top Pro

Great support

Support responds quickly and they genuinely try to help you! If it's a bug, it will often be fixed within days. See More

Top Con

It can be slow and resource hungry

It was written in Java, which is known for being a resource hog, and it can be slow on some machines, as well as prone to errors if developers are not very experienced. See More

Top Pro

Log: ability to see dangling commits and stash commits

Rebased, but not yet garbage-collected commits can be easily made accessible again, e.g. after a reset hard. See More

Top Pro

Extendable with external tools

External tools (which have a command line support) can be integrated to be used to open/view files, for diff or as conflict solvers. E.g. editors like Notepad++ or VS Code, p4merge to diff images or kdiff3 as diff view/conflict solver. See More

Top Pro

Great conflict resolver

Top Pro

Portable version for Windows is available

SmartGit also has a portable bundle that can be downloaded and can be run from external devices (such as a flash drive for example) or to test-drive without leaving traces on the machine after removing. See More

Top Pro

Best submodule workflow on the market

You can easily update submodules from the containing repo, unlike other GUIs that require you to open each repo separately. Saves a lot of time when working on a monorepo managed using submodules. See More

Top Pro

Great filtering options

The file list view can be tweaked and filtered in many ways (e.g. regex can be used). See More

Top Pro

The best multi-repository support

Can make a repo group containing multiple repos; it acts as a meta repo. Can submit selected files from multiple repos in a repo group in one commit action; uses the same commit message in all the repo commits. See More

Top Pro

Journal dedicated for current branch history

Showing commits from the current branch, its remote branch and one auxiliary branch. Independent of the that, there is a log window available that allows to view all (other) commits. See More

Top Pro

Easy recover from mistakes

Across all those years, every mistake I did I was able to recover. See More

Top Pro

Every git command is available through the GUI

Not every, but nearly all. See More

Top Pro

Can rearrange Repository window and Log window views/panels

This allows great layouts as desired. See More

Top Pro

Offers life-time updates

One payment, get updates for all future versions. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

Top Pro

GPG support

GPG in SmartGit makes for added security. See More

Top Pro

Ability to follow only first parent in the Log window

This is extremely useful in histories with a lot of merges. You can focus on the changes on the main branch and expand into a merged branch with a single click when you need to. See More

Top Pro

Evolution submission program

See here. See More

Top Pro

Can detect issue numbers and links to the issue tracker

Supports GitBugTraq file. See More

Top Pro

Supports selecting open issues from JIRA

Allows you to select the desired issue, instead of having to do it manually. See More

Top Pro

Can handle big repositories with long history

4GB, 10 years. Most other graphical clients either slow down to a crawl or even crash, or don't support some of the needed features. See More

Top Pro

UX design is synergy with how a developer actually works

It may look confusing at first, but once you know each part, you love how useful they are. See More

Top Pro

Git squash

Git squash is a pain on CLI, and most Git clients allow some kind of squash during Rebase only. Ctrl+J shortcut helps for simple squash commits. See More

Top Pro

Hotkeys for everything

Or nearly everything. See More

Specs

Platforms:Linux, Mac, Windows

Pull Request/Comments support:Atlassian Stash, BitBucket, GitHub, own Git server (Distributed Review add-on)

Pro Features:Conflict Solver and Compare (freely editable); Pull Requests, Comments for BitBucket, GitHub and provider independent (Distributed Review add-on); Git-Flow; highly configurable views, external tools

Issue Tracker support:Atlassian JIRA

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MobaXterm

Top Pro

Flexible

MobaXterm can connect to practically anything. See More

Top Con

Not completely freeware

If you use MobaXterm at work, they hope you will pay for it. This isn't horrifying, but it's not providing any new features in Linux to warrant the outlay. Its integration with Putty in Windows as an X client may make it worth the funds. See More

Top Pro

X server support

In case you need X11 forwarding, MobaXterm has an integrated X server. See More

Top Con

Split screen prevents tabbed mode

If you split a screen within a tab, you have to go back to single screen before you can switch to another tab. See More

Top Pro

Full linux subsystem with package manager

And you can install conda for additional package management. See More

Top Con

Can have some performance issues

MobaXterm can have some occasional performance issues. These happen rarely but it's worth mentioning that they exist, especially since this is a paid tool. See More

Top Pro

Tabbed or split mode

Multiple terminals can either be in tabs or split horizontally or vertically. See More

Top Pro

Integral remote file editor

Edit remote files via ssh and sftp See More

Top Pro

SSH tunnel controls and forwarding UI controls makes it easy

Top Pro

Automatic SFTP

With MobaXterm, there's no fiddling with multiple apps: simply connect and everything is available. See More

Top Pro

Connection manager

Top Pro

ENV can use Windows PATH

Top Pro

Password vault

Top Pro

Server tools (HTTPD, SSHD, SFTPD, TTFT)

Top Pro

Build in sftp file manager

Manipulate and edit remote files in the file browser. See More

Top Pro

Integrates with WSL

Integrates perfectly with the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Out of the box it offers a shell to that system. See More

Top Pro

Supports macro controls (multi commands in single screen)

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Fork

Top Pro

Fast and easy to use

Top 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. See More

Top 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. See More

Top Con

No Linux version

This git client is not compatible with Linux making the life harder for the developers that work on both, MacOS and some Linux distro. See More

Top Pro

Smart Diff is very handy

Top Con

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

Top Pro

Tabbed interface

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

Top 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. See More

Top Pro

Dark theme support

Top Pro

Highlights the difference within a line

Top Pro

Merge Conflict Resolution is great

Top Pro

Comfortable keyboard shortcuts

Top Pro

Repositories with uncommitted changes have a * next to their name

This is an update from previous versions. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS

Price:FREE / $49.99

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Ungit

Top Con

Node.js dependent

Top Pro

Free and Open Source Software

Ungit is open source software available under the MIT Licence. See More

Top Con

Setup is not user-friendly

Ungit is distributed as an NPM package and requires git and Node.js to be installed on your system before you can run it. Ungit must be launched by running ungit in a command line terminal. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

Works on Windows, Linux, and OS X. See More

Top Con

Exposes git commands to your network

No authentication, if someone can communicate with your computer on the port this is running on, they can execute any git command they want on your repos as well as view your filesystem's folders. See More

Top Pro

Optional Integration with Modern Text Editors

Ungit can be integrated directly into modern text editors, Atom, Brackets, and VS Code. See More

Top Pro

Web-based interface

Ungit is web-based, meaning you can run it on your cloud/pure shell machine and then use the UI from your browser. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Mac, Linux

Price:Free

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Visual Studio Code

Top Pro

Extendable through plug-ins

Visual Studio Code comes fairly complete out of the box, but there are many plug-ins available to extend its functionality. See More

Top Con

Embedded Git isn't powerful enough

You can do nothing but to track changes, stage them and commit. No history, visualization, rebasing or cherry-picking – these things are left to git console or external git client. See More

Top Pro

TypeScript integration

There is very solid TypeScript integration in Visual Studio Code. Both are developed by Microsoft and VSC itself is written in TypeScript. See More

Top Con

The autocomplete and code check is not as powerful as the one on WebStorm

Sometimes it doesn't tell you if you made a typo in a method name or if a method is not used and several other important features. See More

Top Pro

Integrated debugging

VSC includes debugging tools for Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript. See More

Top Con

File search is extremely slow

It's absolutely not possible to use this tool with big projects given how long it takes to search for files. See More

Top Pro

Ready to use out of the box

You don't need to configure and add plugins before being productive. However, you can add plugins if needed but for the basics you're well covered. See More

Top Con

Project search limits results

Because file search is so slow your results are limited in order to simulate a faster search. See More

Top Pro

Integrated terminal

There's no need to press alt+tab to go to a terminal: it is directly integrated into the editor. Shift+~ is a handy hotkey to toggle the integrated terminal. See More

Top Con

Very bad auto import

Top Pro

Great performance

For a 'wrapped' web-based application, Visual Studio Code performs very well. See More

Top Con

Generalized

VS Code is a general code/scripting IDE built to be lightweight and for people familiar with their language of choice, not directly comparable to Visual Studio in power or scope. See More

Top Pro

Libre/open source

Released under the MIT License. See More

Top Con

Memory hog

Allegedly, VS Code is "lightweight". Yet, running multiple instances of it at once, you may get many "out of memory" messages from Windows despite 16 GB RAM. (While of course also running other things. The point is the comparison with some other IDEs/editors where running them alongside the same number of other applications doesn't cause Windows to run out of memory) See More

Top Pro

Fast and powerful

VS-Code has the speed of Sublime and the power of WebStorm. Perhaps this is the best software that Microsoft has ever created. See More

Top Con

Poor error fix suggestions

Error detection and suggestions/fixes are poor compared to IntelliJ platforms See More

Top Pro

JavaScript IntelliSense support

JavaScript IntelliSense allows Visual Studio Code to provide you with useful hints and auto-completion features while you code. See More

Top Con

A "me too" offering from MS, far behind other well established editors that it attempts to clone

Other IDEs specific to a language often offer better tools for deep programming. See More

Top Pro

Embedded Git control

Visual Studio Code has integrated Git control, guaranteeing speed, data integrity, and support for distributed, non-linear workflows. See More

Top Con

Slow launch time

Slower than it's competitors, e.g. Sublime Text. See More

Top Pro

Updated frequently

There's a new release of Visual Studio Code every month. If you are one of the insiders then releases are daily. See More

Top Con

Emmet plugin often fails on even simple p tags

Top Pro

ESLint integration

ESLint integrates great. You can define your rules trough .eslintrc.* as usual and vs code will autofix your code on save. So your code is always in style. See More

Top Con

Have no good default js style analyzer

In WebStorm there is analyzer that checks for warnings and highlight this in yellow, here you cannot find or add it even with plugins. It is possible to have it as errors with linter but while you are actively changing file that's not very nice. See More

Top Pro

Extensions (aka plugins) are written in JavaScript

Extensions are written in either Typescript or JavaScript. See More

Top Con

.sass linting is terrible

Top Pro

Active development

It's really nice to see how the code editor evolves. Every month there is a new version with great communication of new features and changes. See More

Top Con

Is not an IDE, is a text editor

Top Pro

Integrated task runners

Task runners display lists of available tasks and performing these tasks is as simple as a click of the mouse. See More

Top Pro

It has gotten really good

All it takes is one stop for all the features many people need. See More

Top Pro

Custom snippets support

Snippets are templates that will insert text for you and adapt it to their context, and in VSC they are highly customizable. See More

Top Pro

Huge community behind it

The ease of getting assistance and finding tutorials is increasing as the community grows. See More

Top Pro

JS typechecking

It leverages TypeScript compiler functionality to statically type check JS (type inference, JSDoc types) with "javascript.implicitProjectConfig.checkJs": true option. See More

Top Pro

Python support

Excellent Python plugin, originally created by Don Jayamanne, now hired by Microsoft to extend and maintain the extension. See More

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Good support for new Emmet syntax

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High fidelity C# plugin

The Omnisharp plugin is very powerful providing full sln, csproj, and project.json support. See More

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Support RTL languages

It supports pretty web rtl languages like arabic languages when most of other editors don't support it. See More

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Inline definition picking and usages finding

These features allow you to have a glance at code without opening it as a whole in a separate tab. Moreover, editing is allowed. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux

License:MIT, Proprietary (official builds)

Multi Language Support:Yes

Auto Complete:Yes

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TortoiseGit

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Windows only

No Linux or OSX versions available. See More

Top Pro

Open source

Licensed under GPL. See More

Top Con

Renames git commands

Makes things hard to find for people used to the git CLI. See More

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Windows context menu integration

Context menu enables access to common commands quickly. See More

Top Con

Buggy file status icons

The file icons are also often buggy and do not reflect its true status. Often times the icon is missing and makes you think a file or folder is untracked, when it is already staged, or sometimes even already committed and pushed. See More

Top Pro

Can parse and provide a pretty log of all commits or filter by branch

Top Con

May clutter your Windows Explorer

If you have synced your dev folder to a cloud service, TortoiseGit's git status file icons will override your cloud provider's icons. See More

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Convinient blaming tool

Very friendly blame tool. Easy to walk in the history of a file. See More

Top Con

No support for staging

It does not support staging in any way. You'll never guess that this feature is exist in git. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows

Technology:C, C++

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GitAhead

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Multi-platform

Windows, macOS, and Linux. See More

Top Con

GitAhead is no longer under active development

GitAhead is no longer under active development. Low-level maintenance and bug fix releases will be made as necessary for the forseeable future, but no new features or major changes are planned at this time. See More

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All basic Git features included

Branches, Pull, Push, Fetch, Cherry-pick, Stash, Revert, Rebase... See More

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It is now free and open source

No longer requires an account. See More

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Qt-based

This means it is fast, looks great on any platform and integrates especially well with KDE. See More

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Fastest on Linux

Not based on web technologies and fastest to start and work with, yet featuring all required features. See More

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Designed to support repository exploration

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Can link to most used git cloud providers

Link to gitlab, github and bitbucket accounts. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Mac, Linux

Technology:C++

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gitk

Top Con

Cannot commit

The user needs to use a different Git client (GUI or otherwise) to commit changes. See More

Top Pro

Visibly more compact overview output than many other options

When using gitk to scan a long list of changes, the user is able to see more of the list without pagination, as there is no huge buffer of whitespace between each entry. See More

Top Con

Does not automatically update

The user must press F5 to refresh the view as there is no automatic update available. See More

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Fast

Since it's pretty minimalistic and does not contain a lot of features (for example, it can't commit), it's quite fast. See More

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Free

Gitk is a free and open source tool. It forms part of the official git suite. See More

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Comes with Git

Gitk is a part of the git package, so no additional application is necessary: it is developed right alongside git itself. See More

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Easy to use

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What is the best alternative to Git for Windows?

Too complicated

Light resource usage unlike virtual machines

You can't mix and match installations - utilities added to the subsystem are only available in the subsystem

Includes common UNIX utilities

Supports multiple Linux distributions

Runs native Linux tools

Additional packages available via Cygwin Ports project

Many incompatibilities

Better default terminal

You can run graphical applications

Context based help

Terminal is not for everyone

Intuitive key shortcuts

Lacks some features

Very fast even in massive repos

Free and open source

Crossplatform

Allows you to stay in the terminal

Steeper barrier to entry as compared to a GUI solution

Fast

Vim-like bindings

Available in Homebrew

Works on any platform

Pure Git behind the scenes

Too expensive

Speed

Very keyboard friendly

No account info needed

Portable version

"Native" performance (Python based)

Using the trial version forever without limitations

Lifetime testing

Excellent user interface

Not subscription based

Bundled license available with Sublime Text (which is an amazing text editor)

Useful only for people who use Emacs

Uninterrupted workflow for common tasks

Diffs are easy

Easy to remember mnemonics

Better visualization and interactive workflow

Stage hunks or even just parts of a hunk using a single key press

Blame information can be viewed inline with the file

Multiple buffers are used to show contextual information

Powerful rebasing

Available in Homebrew

Semantic Diff and Merge Tools for most languages

Requires registration/account to use (Outdated, not longer correct)

Visual

No proper Uninstaller

Native

Ugly

Free version available

Bugs are not solved as often as they should

Fast and smart contextual assistance

Somewhat expensive

Intuitive and slick UI

Built with closed source components

Stable and robust

Lack of plugins

Support for many languages

Standard hotkeys behave differently

Smart refactorings

Lots of plugins

Android support, JavaEE support, etc

Clear and detailed documentation

Very powerful debugger

Many convenient features

Official IDE developed by Microsoft

Slow & Buggy (on Mac)

Free Community edition

Professional pricing is a bit steep

Amazing coverage over languages

No Linux version

Excellent and broad range of plugins

Mac version sub-par

Partial cross-platform support

Too much storage eater for low-end PCs

It can run c#, c++, etc.

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