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1. #BEST GIT GUI CLIENT MAC FOR MAC OS X#
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You can also adjust the granularity of the chunks using the Diff Tool, making the chunks bigger or smaller. For instance, if you have a file with two changes in it, but only want to commit one of the changes, you can do this in the browse view by looking at the Unstaged changes and mousing over to the left side of the view and selecting which chunks you want to commit. You can even break this down further by staging particular changed parts. Tower also makes it easy to stage (see image below), by selecting specific files, those which will go into any given commit. Provide Tower your credentials for either service, and you can create and clone repositories on them easily. One nice bit of integration with Tower is its built-in support for both Github and Beanstalk. The dashboard idea would work, if it allowed you to have more than one window open - I could easily like the idea of one repository per window if it allowed you to have more than one window open at a time. This seems like an extra step, especially when coming from Cornerstone that has a sidebar specifically to list repositories, showing the same needed/uncommitted changes that Tower’s dashboard does. Unfortunately, Tower only lets you work with one repository at a time and switching between repositories requires a visit to the dashboard or using the Repositories menu item to select from recently opened repositories. Here you can see how many local uncommitted changes you have, and how many changes from upstream that you have not pulled in. Hitting Command+D will take you to the repository dashboard which lists the various defined repositories. The repository viewer is both useful and annoying. You can also easily create a new branch or tag from any commit on an existing branch from the history browser. You can drag a remote repository branch onto a local branch and merge the changes into it.

Tower largely makes this a drag and drop affair. It offers all the features necessary to work with Git: branching, tagging, merging, and easily working with remote repositories. Tower is a really solid front-end to the command line git program.

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While aesthetics are important to most Mac users, the look of Tower isn’t entirely what sold me on it.

#BEST GIT GUI CLIENT MAC TRIAL#

Tower has a 30-day trial, and SourceTree has a 21-day trial so you can compare them for yourself. The UI of Tower, however, struck me as being more like Cornerstone and a little easier to use, so after brief usage between the two, I opted for Tower. Comparing Tower to SourceTree was more interesting because they are very close in price, and they are both very obviously native Mac applications with the good looks to prove it. It seemed clunky and I found the UI to be confusing and very unlike my other GUI VCS tool, Cornerstone (for Subversion), so I can honestly say I didn’t give it much of a chance. I played with SmartGit briefly and I really didn’t like it. Tower will set you back $59 and SourceTree is a little cheaper at $55. It’s the most expensive of the three however, if you use it for non-commercial use, it’s free. For use in a commercial environment, it will set you back $69. If you’re on a budget and don’t mind using a non-Mac-like java program, SmartGit is worth looking at. Primary playersĪs I looked, I found that there are currently three big players in the Git GUI space on the Mac right now: SmartGit, Tower, and SourceTree. If and when I decide to start using Git more seriously, then I’ll make that investment until then I decided to hunt for a nice point-and-click Git client. Unfortunately, I’m lazy and used to Subversion, and currently use Git quite rarely, so I didn’t want to invest the time to figure out the command line client. But this old dog can be taught new tricks, and Git is the bright and shining star of the version control systems available now, and with some pretty good reason. When it comes to version control, I am a Subversion fan through and through.

Here's a look at the three main players and the one he chose. Before learning the command line for Git, he shopped around for a GUI client. Vincent Danen is a Subversion fan, but coming around to Git for the Mac.

#BEST GIT GUI CLIENT MAC FOR MAC OS X#

Choosing the right Git GUI client for Mac OS X