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Discussion on: I Find Git Extensions Confusing

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Davyd McColl

Your last sentence nails it for most git tools -- you need to understand how git works: the more the better. Personally, Git Extensions never felt comfortable for me: I found the UI too busy and confusing when I could accomplish what I wanted from the CLI easier. Also, GE is windows-only and I tend to work across at least two operating systems (windows and linux), occasionally crossing into osx-land.

GitKraken is way better (give it a go if you haven't -- it can be free depending on usage).

The JetBrains integrated tooling is quite good, but they're mixing it up a bit lately, so every release, the cheese has moved. Personally, I still end up at the command prompt a lot of the time -- I really only use GUI tools to browse history and resolve conflicts.

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Jesse Phillips

Personally I'm quite happy with the standard gitk and git gui. As you say I mostly just want to browse the history, and git gui is nice for managing partial commits, something git extensions fails at.