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leanminmachine •

i havent tried gitkraken, is it better than sourcetree? been using sourcetree but since a few mths back, i've switched to just terminal. now i just use git log --graph --oneline --decorate to see the structure haha

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Forest Hoffman •

I added the following to my global git config, it's a pretty compact git flow IMO.

[alias]
    lg1=log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset) %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(dim white)- %an%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset)' --all
    lg2=log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold cyan)%aD%C(reset) %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset)%n''          %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(dim white)- %an%C(reset)' --all
    lg=!git lg1
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Elliot Derhay •

I was Terminal-only for a while too. But for a simple GUI that speeds up your most common operations, I have to recommend GitKraken.

I still hang onto my terminal for when I need it though. GitKraken doesn't cover everything that, say, SourceTree does, but its GUI is much cleaner and I'm already comfortable enough in a terminal that I'm fine doing the more advanced stuff that way.

As an aside, I'd recommend being comfortable with git CLI anyway. Trying to learn with a GUI alone tends to hide a lot of the important stuff.