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the more tools for git the better. it makes for a healthier and broader ecosystem.

i notice that you can choose either 1. free 30 day trial 2. pay for license 3. free non-commerical license.

what does it mean to not use smartgit commercially? does that mean i can't use smartgit for projects i'm paid to do as a consultant? what about for my startup which currently has 0 revenue? or is this simply "pay for support"?

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I've been waiting for better git GUI tools to get git going amongst friends who are less terminal-happy than I am, so this should definitely help.

That being said, I feel perfectly fine with just a terminal.

I agree on all points except I like a GUI tool for visualization, which I still use gitk for because none of the other tools on OS X even come close to the information density.

I'm also somewhat wanting of a better mergetool since I'm a little sketchy with the CLI tools for that, and usually end up merging anything complicated by hand.

P4merge is pretty awesome for merging.

Wow, looks awesome! Thanks for the tip.

If it is like the other tools, then the free version has less features.

(as in if you don't want to pay for the full licence, it falls back to a subset of features).

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