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Git Extensions vs Gitlint

Overview

Git Extensions

Stacks19

Followers20

Votes0

GitHub Stars8.2K

Forks2.2K

Gitlint

Stacks10

Followers11

Votes0

GitHub Stars920

Forks111

Gitlint vs Git Extensions: What are the differences?

Gitlint: Linting your Git commit messages. Git commit message linter written in python (for Linux and Mac, experimental on Windows), checks your commit messages for style; 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.

Gitlint and Git Extensions can be categorized as "Git" tools.

Some of the features offered by Gitlint are:

Auto-trigger validations against new commit message right when you're committing. Also works with pre-commit
Designed to work with your own scripts or CI system
Easily configurable

On the other hand, Git Extensions provides the following key features:

Windows Explorer integration for Git
Visual Studio (2015/2017/2019) plugin (download)
Feature rich user interface for Git

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Detailed Comparison

Git Extensions	Gitlint
It is a standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. It also integrates with Windows Explorer and Microsoft Visual Studio.	Git commit message linter written in python (for Linux and Mac, experimental on Windows), checks your commit messages for style.
Windows Explorer integration for Git; Visual Studio (2015/2017/2019) plugin (download); Feature rich user interface for Git	Auto-trigger validations against new commit message right when you're committing. Also works with pre-commit; Designed to work with your own scripts or CI system; Easily configurable; Community contributed rules; User-defined rules; Full unicode support;Production-ready
Statistics
GitHub Stars 8.2K	GitHub Stars 920
GitHub Forks 2.2K	GitHub Forks 111
Stacks 19	Stacks 10
Followers 20	Followers 11
Votes 0	Votes 0
Integrations
Git Visual Studio	Git Linux macOS Windows

What are some alternatives to Git Extensions, Gitlint?

Diff So Fancy

diff-so-fancy builds on the good-lookin' output of git contrib's diff-highlight to upgrade your diffs' appearances.

TortoiseGit

It is a Git revision control client, implemented as a Windows shell extension and based on TortoiseSVN. It is free software released under the GNU General Public License.

GitUI

It is a blazing fast terminal-UI for git written in Rust. You can inspect, commit, and amend changes. It has context-based help (no need to memorize tons of hot-keys).

pre-commit by Yelp

If one of your developers doesn’t have node installed but modifies a JavaScript file, pre-commit automatically handles downloading and building node to run jshint without root. Pre-commit is a multi-language package manager for pre-commit hooks. You specify a list of hooks you want and pre-commit manages the installation and execution of any hook written in any language before every commit. pre-commit is specifically designed to not require root access.

ungit

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

rebase-editor

Simple terminal based sequence editor for git interactive rebase. Written in Node.js, published to npm, uses terminal-kit.

hub

hub is a command line tool that wraps git in order to extend it with extra features and commands that make working with GitHub easier.

Check It Out

Check It Out lets you interactively see and choose what branch you want to check out without the hassle of trying to type out a long or confusing branch name. Checking out branches just got even simpler!