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by smaili 3770 days ago
Still waiting for showing all repositories on the left hand side so I don't need to iterate through ten different windows whenever I'm looking to commit something.

Edit: Some commenters mentioned SmartGit and GitKraken. Anyone here actually use them?

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I use SmartGit every day and like it very much. I'd be happy to answer any questions about it - except for a direct comparison with SourceTree, since I haven't used the latter.

WRT your "still waiting", SmartGit does list all your repos in one panel in the main window, and you can select any of them to work on without switching windows. When you view the log for a repo it opens in a new window, but you can do most work directly in the main window.

One thing about SmartGit is it's definitely not a "dumbed down" GUI - for most of what I do it feels more powerful than the Git command line, not less.

SmartGit is a commercial product if you use it for commercial work (it does have a 30 day trial), or free for noncommercial work.

Kraken certainly feels snappier than sourcetree.

So far my main complaints are the layout in windowed mode (had to pull a few of the panels to make staged/unstaged come out from behind the commit input) and not being able to switch off the Identicons (Getting a rather garish red and green one that's distracting)

>Edit: Some commenters mentioned SmartGit and GitKraken. Anyone here actually use them?

GitKraken took like 400+ mB on my Mac. That's quite insane for such a simple application.

electron app + whatever junk (tests, docs, examples) module maintainers didn't hide with an .npmignore.