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Sublime Merge is still the best option so far (not Electron)

Absolutely, what an excellent tool. One of those one-time purchases I almost wish was a subscription so I can be sure the team keeps working on it.

I actually understand git better because of Merge. It's great because it provides a great interface into git, but it doesn't _hide_ git from you; it explains it quite a well.

I suppose a newcomer to git might find Merge intimidating, but for anyone with a bit of experience I think it's quite an awesome power tool with a rare balance of handy abstraction and transparency around git itself.

Licenses are valid for three years of updates. So, it is a subscription, just a very long one with a fallback version when the subscription ends.

I can't imagine the Sublime Merge version I have today won't still be super useful once my license expires, so for a lot of people, buying a new copy might not seem particularly compelling. It's also so cheap (or it was when I bought it) that it's waaayyyyy less expensive than any 3 year subscription I've ever seen – something like $2/month.

Then the software isn't a subscription, the updates are. This is also kind of how the Jetbrains stuff works and it's far less user-hostile than making someone pay in perpetuity to simply use the software.

People on my team use it. I guess it's fine, but when they get stuck with git (a-la locate git.txt and call the number listed on it), I am sort of at a loss of what they did to get where they are. At least with git commands you can sort of see how they got there.

Just my 2c

Sublime Merge presents every single action taken as a git command (and presents a history of them and the results of each one)

Also git reflog?

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