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Git Extensions vs git-fastclone

Overview

git-fastclone

Stacks2

Followers9

Votes0

GitHub Stars191

Forks29

Git Extensions

Stacks19

Followers20

Votes0

GitHub Stars8.2K

Forks2.2K

Git Extensions vs git-fastclone: What are the differences?

What is Git Extensions? A standalone UI tool for managing Git repositories. It is a standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. It also integrates with Windows Explorer and Microsoft Visual Studio.

What is git-fastclone? git clone --recursive on steroids, by Square. It creates a reference repo with git clone --mirror in /var/tmp/git-fastclone/reference for each repository and git submodule linked in the main repo. You can control where it puts these by changing the REFERENCE_REPO_DIR environment variable.

Git Extensions and git-fastclone belong to "Git Tools" category of the tech stack.

git-fastclone is an open source tool with 169 GitHub stars and 22 GitHub forks. Here's a link to git-fastclone's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

git-fastclone	Git Extensions
It creates a reference repo with git clone --mirror in /var/tmp/git-fastclone/reference for each repository and git submodule linked in the main repo. You can control where it puts these by changing the REFERENCE_REPO_DIR environment variable.	It is a standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. It also integrates with Windows Explorer and Microsoft Visual Studio.
Create a reference repo for every repository and their submodules; Updates mirrors from origin and clones into target directory	Windows Explorer integration for Git; Visual Studio (2015/2017/2019) plugin (download); Feature rich user interface for Git
Statistics
GitHub Stars 191	GitHub Stars 8.2K
GitHub Forks 29	GitHub Forks 2.2K
Stacks 2	Stacks 19
Followers 9	Followers 20
Votes 0	Votes 0
Integrations
GitHub	Git Visual Studio

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TortoiseGit

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GitUI

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pre-commit by Yelp

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ungit

Clean and intuitive UI that makes it easy to understand git.

rebase-editor

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hub

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