What are the best git GUIs with discounts for students?

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Best git GUIs with discounts for students	Price	Platforms	Issue Tracker support
-- SmartGit	Free+	Linux, Mac, Windows	Atlassian JIRA
-- GitKraken	-	Windows, macOS, Linux	-
-- Tower	-	Windows, Mac	-

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SmartGit

Top Pro

Free for non-commercial use

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

Top Con

Proprietary license

Not an open source license. See More

Specs

Platforms:Linux, Mac, Windows

Issue Tracker support:Atlassian JIRA

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

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

Top Pro

Can rearrange Repository window and Log window views/panels

This allows great layouts as desired. See More

Top Con

External log window

A "Journal" view is available in the main window, though, and focuses on the current branch (incl. remote branch) and one additional ("auxiliary") branch. 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 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

Auto stash

Greatly improve the user experience when rebasing etc 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

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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 Pro

Supports Mercurial & SVN

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

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GitKraken

Top Pro

Provides free one-year Pro account for students

By registering GitHub Student Developer Pack, one student gets one year Pro account. More info on that here. See More

Top Con

Not open source

It is gratis (no cost) but is not open source. The community cannot fix problems in it, audit it for security, or trust it in general. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux

Pricing:~$49/user/yr for Pro, ~$99/user/yr for Enterprise

Integrations:GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab

Paid Features:Email Support / Merge Conflict Editor / GitLab & GitHub Enterprise Integration

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Top Pro

Free version available

There are both pro and free versions available. The free version is pretty complete feature-wise for day-to-day operations. See More

Top Pro

Beautiful user interface

It's modern and beautiful, it looks clean and refined. It's simple: the most used features (pull, push, branch, stash, commit) are accessible in one click, and are the only buttons. The other features aren't in complicated menus nor in hundreds of buttons, but rather displayed when you right-click on something. It gives more space to the commits, i.e. the most important things. In fact, you can collapse or reduce the other menus/windows. It displays the current path (project, branch) on an horizontal (clickable) bar at the top. It's just a matter of taste but I prefer this to the traditional "tree" view. It has undo and redo buttons on the main window. It supports some drag-and-drop gestures (for example: drag-and-droping the local branch to the remote one pushes it). See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

Built on top of Electron, so it runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows. See More

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Tower

Platforms:Windows, Mac

Trial Period:30 days

What are the best git GUIs with discounts for students?

3 Options Considered

SmartGit

My Recommendation for SmartGit

My Recommendation for SmartGit

Free for non-commercial use

Proprietary license

Can rearrange Repository window and Log window views/panels

External log window

Great filtering options

Some git functionality has been renamed

Auto stash

Easy to use

Supports GitFlow

Supports Mercurial & SVN

Uncluttered UI

GitKraken

My Recommendation for GitKraken

My Recommendation for GitKraken

Provides free one-year Pro account for students

Not open source

Free version available

Beautiful user interface

Cross-platform

Tower

My Recommendation for Tower

My Recommendation for Tower

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