When comparing GitX-dev vs GitEye, the Slant community recommends GitX-dev for most people. In the question“What are the best Git clients for macOS?” GitX-dev is ranked 4th while GitEye is ranked 21st. 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 Native GitHub GUI support via GitHub Eclipse plugin
GitEye can be integrated with the GitHub Eclipse plugin to have support for GitHub.
Pro Custom commands can be defined that allow launching third-party tools
If you are using a lot of third-part tools besides GitEye, you can set up shortcuts to launch them easily from inside GitEye, greatly improving your workflow.
Pro Has a graphical compare and merge tool
Pro Great for those starting out with git
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 Poor documentation
The documentation isn't very detailed and does not do a good job at explaining everything.