GitHub Desktop or Git CLI?

I don't understand git anyway

JetBrains IDEs, I don't remember the last time I used the CLI.

Learning git will give you the tools to work on projects on any git platform. It doesn't matter if I'm in Forgejo, Gitlab, or Github.

CLI
Though I will admit it took me a while to get there
git add -i is where the true magic begins

GitHub desktop Stan here. Been a software engineer for over a decade and still love my UI tools. GitHub desktop is good enough 99% of the time.

Magit

Fork

I'd love to like the desktop app, but I just don't understand what it's doing under the hood when I click a button. When I click an icon, is it syncing my changes up as it pulls down, it just pulling down? I guess point and click is more scary to me when prod is on the line.

GitKraken!

lazygit:

Fork.

Why am I not allowed to login to 2 GitHub remote at the same time? Answer me Microsoft

Sublime-Merge

Another gui client, such as Git Fork. Much easier to fine tune what I commit, and see commit history, with a gui client. Certain things are better to do in the command line, but I really don't get why so many people hate gui clients

CLI + IDE for git

Sublime Merge, for most items in the UI it tells you the git command it will use

I'd use Desktop if it worked, unfortunately recently it decided that I don't have read/write access to a repo I'm working on. Works fine in git CLI so idk what the problem there is.

using LazyGit in tmux has changed my workflow.

instead of: git add . git commit -m 'foo' fg

i just: g ac foo q

and it displays everything neatly

Edit: apparently greater/less than symbols dont render properly on lemmy. so imagine a few (CR)'s and (C-b)'s sprinkled in

I feel those captions are the wrong way round

Laughs in Sourcetree

SVN?

Personally, GitExtensions... github desktop is a pile of turds but git CLI introduces unnecessary stress precisely when I don't want it.

Fork is much better than GitHub Desktop, you can use it without paying indefinitely

Why are they even on the same bus?

GitLens?

GitHub Desktop is literally "Baby's first git GUI".

Vim Fugitive

CLI because linux

For something with such an horrible interface, it's amazing how often people that create a new interface for it manage to make it worse.

I really like Sourcetree, been using that for a long time.

Well one runs on Linux and the other doesn't so....

Ohmyzsh with the git plugin is my fave - gaa & gcmsg "a commit" feels like the right level of verbosity for me.

Gitlab/Azure Repo

I only use it to clone projects via the Open in GitHub desktop link.

The GitHub CLI is magic.

tig

Git cli powerfull af only us git cli. Well and gitk

Why is no one talking about LazyGit?

git-cola and my own gitea server, near perfection

Neither, I'm a lazygit fan

gitui