Re: Git GUI client SmartGit released

> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 10:02:08PM +0530, Dilip M wrote:
>> 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 The screenshots on the webpage are a bit out of date, though.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
>