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Re: Git GUI client SmartGit released

From
David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 5, 2009, 20:44 UTC
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On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 10:02:08PM +0530, Dilip M wrote:
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> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:31 PM, <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > As for "missing", do you refer to "paid service", or "yet another GUI"?
> 
> Ahaha! I can say "a good gui" :)
> 
> I was not knowing that this was "paid service". I saw the screenshot
> and tried it. No doubt, it has a _great_ ui interface.  While installation I
> realized that it is licensed.
> 
> - SOFTWARE Non-Commercial License,
> - SOFTWARE Commercial License,
> - SOFTWARE Enterprise License.

Aside from the other good GUIs out there, have you tried git-cola?

http://cola.tuxfamily.org/

It's GPL and not too shabby. The screenshots on the webpage are a bit out of date, though. I should probably get to writing the release announcment and updating the screenshots ;)

It probably also depends on your platform of choice. I know some Windows users like explorer-integration, so stuff like git-cheetah make a lot of sense for them. I was a little sad to see that the tortoise-git guys didn't get the joke (who wants a tortoise when you have a cheetah?) and didn't just work on cheetah instead, but hey, it's all good.

Another example: eclipse users like eclipse integration so for them egit makes perfect sense.

Maybe that makes git-cola the poor man's smartgit? If that's the case then it looks like the poor man is still winning according to the feature matrix on the git wiki ;) I don't know.. I haven't used smartgit, but if there are any features that people are itching to have that git-cola doesn't then feel free to throw it on the backlog:

http://github.com/davvid/git-cola/issues

At first glance, the gitk-like history widget in smartgit is very nice. I've been thinking about how to implement that in PyQt for a while but haven't yet hammered it out.

Have fun,
-- 
		David
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  4. Alexander KitaevDec 8, 2009
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  8. David AguilarDec 5, 2009
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