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Add to SafariWhen comparing GitX-dev vs GitUI, the Slant community recommends GitX-dev for most people. In the question“What are the best open source Git clients?” GitX-dev is ranked 7th while GitUI is ranked 9th. 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 Context based help
No need to memorize a ton of keys or crawl man pages, gitui only Shows you the valid keys depending on your current context.
Pro Intuitive key shortcuts
Perfect for developers who hate to leave their keyboard.
Pro Very fast even in massive repos
Most alternatives crash or run out of memory when opening 1M+ commits repos line Linux.
Pro Free and open source
Pro Crossplatform
Supports macOS, Linux, and Windows.
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 Terminal is not for everyone
It fills a niche between full-blown GUI apps and the bare git CLI.
Con Lacks some features
It’s still in active development and catches up quickly.
