When comparing Ungit vs git-cola, the Slant community recommends git-cola for most people. In the question“What are the best Git clients for Windows?” git-cola is ranked 20th while Ungit is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose git-cola is:
This application is FOSS, and thus it can be freely modified & distributed.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Free and Open Source Software
Ungit is open source software available under the MIT Licence.
Pro Cross-platform
Works on Windows, Linux, and OS X.
Pro Optional Integration with Modern Text Editors
Ungit can be integrated directly into modern text editors, Atom, Brackets, and VS Code.
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.
Pro Free software
This application is FOSS, and thus it can be freely modified & distributed.
Pro Cross-platform
Works on Linux, Mac and Windows.
Pro Full unicode support
Pro Minimalist interface
Pro Available in Homebrew
Can be easily installed through homebrew by running brew install git-cola
.
Cons
Con Node.js dependent
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.
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.
Con Limited feature set
You sometimes need to touch the terminal in order to get certain things done.