SmartGit can be used free of charge by Open Source developers, teachers and their students, or for hobby, non-paid usage.

This allows great layouts as desired.

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

Greatly improve the user experience when rebasing etc

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.

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.

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

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.