When comparing Ungit vs Gitg, the Slant community recommends Gitg for most people. In the question“What are the best visual git GUIs?” Gitg is ranked 12th while Ungit is ranked 15th.
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 Client side decoration (CSD)
Pro Beautiful and simple
The UI is very straightforward, once you open it, you can browse your computer to find an existing git repository and open it in the app. Once opened you can browse commits and view remotes immediately. It also allows you to browse the files and preview them.
There's also a commit view which shows past commit messages, as well as unstaged and untracked commits.
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 Some git features are missing
There are some key/authentication issues.