The only thing I really want out of a GUI is a visual diff/comparison tool before pushes. Does anyone have any recommendations for something along these lines?
On OS X I've been using Tower to great effect. Unfortunately it's OS X only.
Our repo is 4GB and has about 1 million commits.
Source Tree is the only client on Mac I've found so far that doesn't completely grind to a halt on a repository of this size.
It feels like there wasn't much thought about user stories and ux: every git operation was given a button or menu item. Sort of the MS Word phenomenon. Their screenshot on its home page is overwhelming, just like the design of their apps: a hundred items all vying for your attention.
In contrast, GitHub's app for Mac is immediately useful: it makes the 80/20 of git work easy.
But when installing it on a fresh machine the other day, I couldn't find a link to it from the GitHub site (as a longged in user). I needed to go back out to Google to get the URL. Made me wonder if it's going to be dropped or unsupported.