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by leejoramo 645 days ago
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.