Re: Git in nutshell Inbox

From: John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
Date: Jul 9, 2013, 18:37 UTC
Message-ID: <CAEBDL5ViJqSOQB3ydK7jqmbeeQSBBJrFE09A+sB2h12Y2_D3CQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq4nc3g5l5.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:

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> Muhammad Bashir Al-Noimi <mbnoimi@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I'm bzr user and I want to migrate to git. Generally I use bzr through
>> Bazaar Explorer which is very easy & neat GUI utility for managing bzr
>> repositories. May you please guide me to most easy way to migrate to
>> Git?
>
> (I think it's a mistake to stick to GUI: the concepts are easier to
> understand with Git commands IMHO")

Ditto. I think learning the command line makes the process much easier in the end.

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> But there are nice GUIs for Git too. The "official" one is git gui,
> distributed with Git. I do not like the visual aspect a lot, but it has
> a very good coverage of Git's functionalities. Otherwise, have a look at
>
>   https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools#Graphical_Interfaces
>
> git-cola is a good one.

You might want to consider giggle. I've not used it, but it's more BzrExplorer-like, IIRC.

-John