When comparing GitFiend vs git-cola, the Slant community recommends git-cola for most people. In the question“What are the best visual git GUIs?” git-cola is ranked 8th while GitFiend is ranked 27th. 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 Cross platform
It has native Linux, Windows and Mac clients.
Pro Free
As of version 0.38.2 there is no paid features or license.
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
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Cons
Con Limited features
As it is in a new application in development it has a limited feature set if you are a power user.
Con Not open-source
Developer has shared the UI components to GitHub but not the source code of the application.
Con Limited feature set
You sometimes need to touch the terminal in order to get certain things done.