GitHub Desktop vs Octokit
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It is a client library targeting .NET 4.5 and above that provides an easy way to interact with the GitHub API. | 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 2.8K | GitHub Stars 20.9K |
GitHub Forks 1.1K | GitHub Forks 10.0K |
Stacks 934 | Stacks 51 |
Followers 15 | Followers 38 |
Votes 0 | Votes 0 |
Integrations | |
What are some alternatives to Octokit, GitHub Desktop?
Diff So Fancy
diff-so-fancy builds on the good-lookin' output of git contrib's diff-highlight to upgrade your diffs' appearances.
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.
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.
TravisBuddy
TravisBuddy is a cloud service that creates comments in failed pull requests and tell the author what went wrong and what they can do to fix it.
