When comparing Fork vs GitAhead, the Slant community recommends Fork for most people. In the question“What are the best Git clients for Windows?” Fork is ranked 2nd while GitAhead is ranked 12th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Fast and easy to use
Pro Comfortable when staging line-by-line changes
This feature is superior to the one that is implemented by SourceTree as it does not reset the file scroll view to the top of the file after each stage.
If you do feature-specific commits after some time of development - it's very important to be able to easily compose the commit from different line-based changes.
Pro Smart Diff is very handy
Pro Tabbed interface
Several repos can be open at once in individual tabs, so it's trivial to switch back and forth between them.
Pro Overall aesthetic
The GUI components are flawless on the Mac. It is expected to be a similar experience on Windows. Once you realize that you can filter by branch, your appreciation for the product will go up dramatically.
Pro Dark theme support
Pro Highlights the difference within a line
Pro Merge Conflict Resolution is great
Pro Comfortable keyboard shortcuts
Pro Repositories with uncommitted changes have a * next to their name
This is an update from previous versions.
Pro Multi-platform
Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Pro All basic Git features included
Branches, Pull, Push, Fetch, Cherry-pick, Stash, Revert, Rebase...
Pro It is now free and open source
No longer requires an account.
Pro Qt-based
This means it is fast, looks great on any platform and integrates especially well with KDE.
Pro Fastest on Linux
Not based on web technologies and fastest to start and work with, yet featuring all required features.
Pro Designed to support repository exploration
Pro Can link to most used git cloud providers
Link to gitlab, github and bitbucket accounts.
Cons
Con Still a young client, thus not as feature rich
This git GUI client is quite young compared to industry old-timers like git-tower 2 or SourceTree. So it's not as feature rich as you'd like. Still a very capable client for a simple day-to-day work.
Con No Linux version
This git client is not compatible with Linux making the life harder for the developers that work on both, MacOS and some Linux distro.
Con Requires granting access to your git projects for the developer of the app
Con GitAhead is no longer under active development
GitAhead is no longer under active development. Low-level maintenance and bug fix releases will be made as necessary for the forseeable future, but no new features or major changes are planned at this time.