Git vs GitHub Desktop
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Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. | It is an open-source multi-platform GUI Git client designed for working with GitHub repositories. Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git. Whether you're new to Git or a seasoned user, it simplifies your development workflow. |
| - | Attribute commits with collaborators easily; Checkout branches with pull requests and view CI statuses; Syntax highlighted diffs |
Statistics | |
GitHub Stars 57.1K | GitHub Stars 20.9K |
GitHub Forks 26.9K | GitHub Forks 10.0K |
Stacks 343.7K | Stacks 51 |
Followers 184.2K | Followers 38 |
Votes 6.6K | Votes 0 |
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What are some alternatives to Git, GitHub Desktop?
Mercurial
Mercurial is dedicated to speed and efficiency with a sane user interface. It is written in Python. Mercurial's implementation and data structures are designed to be fast. You can generate diffs between revisions, or jump back in time within seconds.
SVN (Subversion)
Subversion exists to be universally recognized and adopted as an open-source, centralized version control system characterized by its reliability as a safe haven for valuable data; the simplicity of its model and usage; and its ability to support the needs of a wide variety of users and projects, from individuals to large-scale enterprise operations.
Plastic SCM
Plastic SCM is a distributed version control designed for big projects. It excels on branching and merging, graphical user interfaces, and can also deal with large files and even file-locking (great for game devs). It includes "semantic" features like refactor detection to ease diffing complex refactors.
Diff So Fancy
diff-so-fancy builds on the good-lookin' output of git contrib's diff-highlight to upgrade your diffs' appearances.
Pijul
Pijul is a free and open source (AGPL 3) distributed version control system. Its distinctive feature is to be based on a sound theory of patches, which makes it easy to learn and use, and really distributed.
Remergr.io
Keep your pull requests automatically up-to-date and resolve your pull requests' conflicts directly from GitHub's UI. Save hundreds of hours you spend resolving conflicts by keeping always your pull requests automatically up-to-date to reduce the chance of conflicts. If conflicts are found, you can straightforwardly resolve them on GitHub's UI with a click of a button.
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.
Astral
Astral pulls down all of your starred repositories on GitHub and allows you to organize them using one or more tags.
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.
