GitX: Git GUI for OS X

GitX is just awesome, and getting better every day. You can currently stage and commit changes using the app, among other things (check out the 'committing' and 'advanced' screencasts on http://gitx.frim.nl/seeit.html).

Best of all: it's open source and makes great use of HTML & JavaScript. Even if you don't know ObjC, you can contribute.

tjweir• 18 years ago

http://gitabulous.com/ is supposed to be nice and sexy.

I've asked to be reminded but I've heard nothing so far.

paltman• 17 years ago

there was a lack of interest in this and the open source gitx proved to be hard to compete against.

epall• 18 years ago

I love GitX. While I'm developing I leave it up alongside Eclipse, and I actually like having a separate interface to my source control outside the IDE.

jimm• 18 years ago

Does it have problems with large repositories? It seemed to hang, and when I tried restarting it it just crashed.

qqq• 18 years ago

What do you need a GUI for?

tptacek2• 18 years ago

I think that about Subversion, which is really just a versioned filesystem; the git command line is pretty complicated though.

lehmannro• 18 years ago

I don't know if the versioned filesystem metaphor fits Subversion that well -- clients do not store history after all. It is usually what Git evangelists praise about their software; you can use Git as a simple versioned file system if you wish (git add/commit/log and you're all set).

ohhmaagawd3• 18 years ago

in many cases with a large project it's faster to work with a GUI. You can navigate complex hierarchies more quickly.

SapphireSun• 18 years ago

Is there a nice looking git client for windows?

ohhmaagawd3• 18 years ago

nope. they are working on cheetah (like tortoise for SVN), but best I can tell it hasn't gone anywhere:

http://repo.or.cz/w/git-cheetah.git/

ohhmaagawd3• 18 years ago

I am trying out Git for a new project and I think we are going to end up going back to SVN.

Problems:

There is no support user based auth, so you have to set up SSH keys. Pain for our non-techies in the group. You should be able to add users and get access via user/pw/repo url.

Bigger problem is the lack of Windows support. We have 2 people (the non-techies) on Windows and expecting them to learn the command line stuff isn't realistic.

gecko• 18 years ago

If I could, I'd like to suggest using Mercurial instead. It is vastly better supported on Windows, has a simpler workflow, and allows HTTP-based authentication--no SSH keys required. Plus, if you really need git-like flexibility--rebasing and whatnot--it's there in the form of Mercurial patch queues.

GitX: Git GUI for OS X

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