I find the GitHub Desktop tool to be rather clunky.
I use git in various ways;
* CLI for most small tasks
* GUI for big tasks and getting an overview
* Editor UI for small things if I am currently in the editor.
* GitHub’s website for collaboration and GH specific tasks
The GUI’s I use are:
Git-Fork on macOS, Windows. Visually my favorite UI of all. https://git-fork.com
Sublime Merge on macOS, Windows and Linux. I use this the most since my main development system is Linux. It is more powerful. https://www.sublimemerge.com
I prefer those two to Tower, but Tower is much better than GitHub’s tools. Tower is probably the most powerful tool out there.
Many editors have good Git support. I tend to use these tools first smaller git tasks.
VSCode had a wealth of built-in and add on tools that can do nearly anything. I generally find these to be rather inelegant UI designs. But again better than GitHub’s own client.
I have been VERY pleased with the Zed Editor’s current git integration and expect it will improve. I have only recently started to use Zed as my primary editor on an experimental basis.
Finally, I haven’t really reviewed all of this in a few years. Always interested in learning new ways.
Are you asking for a Github client in particular, or a git client? if the latter, there are several to choose from, some paid, some free (personally, I like lazygit, but I've used Tower (meh), Git Kraken (quite good, but heavy and not completely free), the built-ins in Jetbrains products, and, ofc the git cli.
If you're asking about the former - something to provide a new view on all the GitHub things like PR, then I don't know of one (though some of the GUI git clients have PR functionality built-in).
I used Refined Github for a while, but ended up stopping as most of the useful stuff (for me, at least) in there appears to be natively available on github.com.
I use git in various ways;
* CLI for most small tasks
* GUI for big tasks and getting an overview
* Editor UI for small things if I am currently in the editor.
* GitHub’s website for collaboration and GH specific tasks
The GUI’s I use are:
Git-Fork on macOS, Windows. Visually my favorite UI of all. https://git-fork.com
Sublime Merge on macOS, Windows and Linux. I use this the most since my main development system is Linux. It is more powerful. https://www.sublimemerge.com
I prefer those two to Tower, but Tower is much better than GitHub’s tools. Tower is probably the most powerful tool out there.
Many editors have good Git support. I tend to use these tools first smaller git tasks.
VSCode had a wealth of built-in and add on tools that can do nearly anything. I generally find these to be rather inelegant UI designs. But again better than GitHub’s own client.
I have been VERY pleased with the Zed Editor’s current git integration and expect it will improve. I have only recently started to use Zed as my primary editor on an experimental basis.
Finally, I haven’t really reviewed all of this in a few years. Always interested in learning new ways.