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The applicatino asks you to register with my email address for further "communications related to GitKraken or Axosoft". There is no way to skip this step, you have to provide an email address ––and pay attention to "OR"... No thanks, buddy.

First thing I tried is dropping a git repo folder to the window, didn't work. When I click the open button I can see the Javascript animation glitching on my 'Early 2015 i5 2.7 Ghz MacBook Pro'.

The commit list UI is kind of alright but it doesn't show you the diff anywhere. So that's not exactly a Git UI, buddy. And this is not open source either, that's a lot of strikes. No thanks.

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You can click on the files in the right-hand pane to get the diff. Right-click for more options.

I've been using the beta(!) for a few weeks and I think it's a promising product. I also don't think software should be completely disqualified for not being open-source (, buddy).

Thanks for pointing this out, I also couldn't figure out how to see a diff.

I am not a fan of this layout. It makes it a bit difficult to get a feel for what the changes were in a quick glance.

I had a similar sense with the app. Despite the very slick UI, it just felt awkward and inconvenient in all sorts of little ways. I couldn't quite get at the info I wanted -- or couldn't do so fluidly. I couldn't quite do what I needed -- or couldn't do so fluidly.

I gave up on it in under an hour, which is kinda record time for me. I gave SourceTree a couple days, GitX/GitY/etc each got multiple hours, etc.

Do you currently use a git GUI that you recommend? Or just command line?

If you're on OS X I recommend gitup. Very fast and clean. Although if I remember correctly, it does ask for an email address.

I use gitup as my git client and I'm completely satisfied. It was even made open source since 1.0

It hasn't asked me for email (the only email it has is for `user.email` git config)

No email address or any sort of signup is needed since 1.0.

gitup (http://gitup.co for those interested) looks amazing!

My team's been using https://rowanj.github.io/gitx/ which has been a godsend - many of the same features, including interactive diff staging and tree view, in a native-feeling Mac interface. But that gitup screencast, how it makes rebasing painless - that's like nothing I've seen before. I'll definitely give gitup a try.

In general, these types of interfaces are VERY useful for junior programmers who aren't used to thinking of Git as a digraph of commits. I'm surprised that they're not used more often in online courses and bootcamps... maybe not enough people know about them yet!

Because IMO struggling and learning "the hard way" first forces people to understand what is actually happening at the git level before using fancy tools like this or Tower to e.g. rebase master or otherwise do complicated unnecessary things because the tool makes them easy to do and "it seemed like the right thing".

There are a lot of ways to do git. If you frequently find yourself needing a GUI tool to do more than compare diffs (there are a few good ones out there), it's very possible that the way you / your team are using git could itself use some work.

If you're very new to git on teams or even if you're more intermediate, https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows/... is probably worth a read to understand how this stuff can work nicely for projects. It really shouldn't be rocket surgery to cut a new release :)

GitHub Desktop[1] runs on both OS X and Windows. It works with non-GitHub git repositories too.

[1] https://desktop.github.com/

I wish the GitHub Desktop app would be more of a browser for GitHub.com, including issues.

GitHub's site is not really convenient for me, the notifications aren't very useful, it generally feels like a clunky way to work.

If GitHub were smarter, they could have become the Slack of development. There's so much room for improvement there.

But not linux :(

Whoa thank you for this, I love it! I do wish there was a Windows version, but it will be a nice-to-have while working on OSX.

I've used SourceTree for a while which is nice, and also has a Windows client.

The no-skip email registration was basically the end of it for me too.

Same here, pretty impressive looking email harvester though.

I just gave my throwaway email address, let them spam it all they want.

I wasn't overly impressed by their app (not to say that it's bad, given the overall scarcity of decent GUI options for Git), but I wanted to take a peek... having to provide some email isn't a showstopper at this point

Don't you guys have separate e-mail that you use for these kind of things? Come on! It's not that big of a deal.

Use Mailinator or another fake email address service.

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