When comparing Gitkraken Glo Boards vs GitX-dev, the Slant community recommends GitX-dev for most people. In the question“What are the best GUI Git clients for Mac?” GitX-dev is ranked 5th while Gitkraken Glo Boards is ranked 10th. 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 Easy To use
Pro Nice dark theme
Glo boards has a built-in dark theme.
Pro Automation Integration
Integrates with GitHub issues to automate your kanban boards. Excellent way to manage and track issues for large projects. The latest update provides supports for integration with Jira.
Pro Continuous Improvement
New updates are being released frequently adding new features to GitKraken Glo Boards
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 Clumsy staging workflow
The staging workflow in GitX-dev is kind of clumsy and unintuitive in the opinion of some. (others love it)