When comparing Terminal.app vs Git Gutter, the Slant community recommends Git Gutter for most people. In the question“What are the best plugins for Sublime Text?” Git Gutter is ranked 7th while Terminal.app is ranked 28th.
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Pros
Pro Default terminal on Mac
Since it is already installed by default, you don't need to worry about finding and installing another terminal.
Pro Light on System Resources
Terminal.app lighter uses less system resources than iTerm having the same number of windows, tabs and processes going on.
Pro Great compatibility
Works with everything.
Pro Easily open man pages
By right clicking on a highlighted string you can easily search through the man pages for that string and the man page will open in a nice pop up window.
Pro Excellent xterm emulation support
Pro Beautiful
Terminal has nice colors and font options.
Pro Makes it really easy to see if a line has been inserted, modified or deleted.
Pro Has hot keys for jumping to the next changed line in the file
Git Gutter exposes the commands git_gutter_next_change
and git_gutter_prev_change
for navigating to parts of the file that are different from git. By default they're bound to ctrl+shift+alt+j
and ctrl+shift+alt+k
respectively, but you can change them in your user key bindings file.
Cons
Con Updates are released rarely
Terminal usually gets an update when any new MacOS version is released, which is every couple of years.
Con Tab names are volatile
The tab names never stick -- it's imperative that this should work.
Con Background images are stretched rather than clipped
Con Occasionally crashes
Working remotely with a full buffer may cause complete terminal app crash.
Con Home and End keys require shift being pressed
Con Directory locking causes issues when changing branches
If you have Sublime Text 3 open when switching branches directories are not removed if they are specific to a branch. This can create a real mess as the directory is treated as a new addition to the destination branch. Deleting the directory is still seen as a directory added then removed in the branch.