When comparing Gitbox vs GitX-dev, 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 Gitbox is ranked 24th. 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.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Clean, minimalistic UI
The UI is clean and intuitive. The top bar displays the current branch, buttons for pushing or pulling, the target branch and a search box for searching through the history.
The main view is divided into three parts: a file tree, a section that shows the modified files with details and a section that displays information about the remote branch.
Pro Easy to use
Gitbox is very easy to use. You can push, pull and commit all with a single click.
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.
Cons
Con Pricing
Con No diff-viewer
Diff-viewing requires an external tool.
Con Clumsy staging workflow
The staging workflow in GitX-dev is kind of clumsy and unintuitive in the opinion of some. (others love it)