Fork vs GitUp

Overview

GitUp

Stacks24

Followers49

Votes36

Fork

Stacks197

Followers258

Votes126

Fork vs GitUp: What are the differences?

What is Fork? Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac. Manage your repositories without leaving the application. Organize the repositores into categories. Fork's Diff Viewer provides a clear view to spot the changes in your source code quickly.

What is GitUp? The Git interface you've been missing all your life. GitUp lets you see your entire labyrinth of branches and merges with perfect clarity. Any change you make, large or small, even outside GitUp, is immediately reflected in GitUp's graph. No refreshing, no waiting.

Fork and GitUp can be primarily classified as "Source Code Management Desktop Apps" tools.

"One of the easiest and fastest git GUIs" is the primary reason why developers consider Fork over the competitors, whereas "Can edit commit messages" was stated as the key factor in picking GitUp.

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Advice on GitUp, Fork

Stefan

Jan 19, 2020

Decided

I explored many Git Desktop tools for the Mac and my final decision was to use Fork. What I love about for that it contains three features, I like about a Git Client tool.

It allows

to handle day to day git operations (least important for me as I am cli junkie)
it helps to investigate the history
most important of all, it has a repo manager which many other tools are missing.

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Detailed Comparison

GitUp	Fork
GitUp lets you see your entire labyrinth of branches and merges with perfect clarity. Any change you make, large or small, even outside GitUp, is immediately reflected in GitUp's graph. No refreshing, no waiting.	Manage your repositories without leaving the application. Organize the repositores into categories. Fork's Diff Viewer provides a clear view to spot the changes in your source code quickly.
Highlight a commit and hit the spacebar to quickly see its message and diff.;GitUp gives you full, transparent control over your local checkout, so it's easy to back out from unwanted changes.;GitUp's Snapshot feature builds a Time-Machine-like history of every change made to your repo, allowing you to step backwards to any point in time.;Rewrite, split, delete, and re-order commits, fixup and squash, cherry-pick, merge, rebase—It's all here, and it's lightning-fast.;GitUp puts the power in your fingertips. Surf your repo, make changes, and rewind it all back with a few short keystrokes.	-
Statistics
Stacks 24	Stacks 197
Followers 49	Followers 258
Votes 36	Votes 126
Pros & Cons
Pros 6 Fast 6 Can edit commit messages 5 Native OSX App 5 Simple interface 3 Easy rebase	Pros 19 One of the easiest and fastest git GUIs 14 Nice UX 13 Does the job way better than others 13 Fast, Great support, Does-it-all, blazing fast 11 Dark theme Cons 2 Poorly written license 1 Merges that require interactive user decision 1 Stability is fragile when looking deeply into history
Integrations
Git	Git

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