When comparing GitX-dev vs Git Extensions, the Slant community recommends GitX-dev for most people. In the question“What are the best graphical git clients for macOS / Mac OSX?” GitX-dev is ranked 5th while Git Extensions is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose GitX-dev is:
Allows for interactive staging of files or hunks and deleting of unstaged or non-git tracked files. Hunk size slider allows staging/unstaging individual lines, letting you stage pieces of a file easily.
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Pros
Pro Visual commit mode
Allows for interactive staging of files or hunks and deleting of unstaged or non-git tracked files. Hunk size slider allows staging/unstaging individual lines, letting you stage pieces of a file easily.
Pro Fast GUI
Responsive even with thousands of files or large binary like files
Pro Understandable trees (branches etc.)
The visualisation of the development trees makes git a lot more useful. The command line is good for a lot, but trees are for GUI clients like GitX.
Pro Comprehensive interface
Developer focused and powerful options
Pro No registration at all
Doesn't require registration to use.
Pro Free/libre
This application is FOSS, and thus it can be freely modified & distributed.
Pro Plugins
It comes with many plugins and you can build your own. Included by default are some very neat visualization tools for Repository metrics.
Pro Easy to add add action in the GUI
Right click to add a script to delete remote branch or tag...
Cons
Con Clumsy staging workflow
The staging workflow in GitX-dev is kind of clumsy and unintuitive in the opinion of some. (others love it)
Con Requires mono
Con Poor UI
Rich developer experience but awful interface.
Con Few plugins
A small selection of plugins.