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Add to SafariWhen comparing Gitbox vs git-cola, the Slant community recommends git-cola for most people. In the question“What are the best Git clients for macOS?” git-cola is ranked 18th while Gitbox is ranked 24th. The most important reason people chose git-cola is:
This application is FOSS, and thus it can be freely modified & distributed.
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 Free software
This application is FOSS, and thus it can be freely modified & distributed.
Pro Cross-platform
Works on Linux, Mac and Windows.
Pro Full unicode support
Pro Minimalist interface
Pro Available in Homebrew
Can be easily installed through homebrew by running brew install git-cola.
Cons
Con Pricing
Con No diff-viewer
Diff-viewing requires an external tool.
Con Limited feature set
You sometimes need to touch the terminal in order to get certain things done.
