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  5. GitHub Desktop vs pre-commit by Yelp

GitHub Desktop vs pre-commit by Yelp

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Overview

pre-commit by Yelp
pre-commit by Yelp
Stacks25
Followers18
Votes3
GitHub Stars14.5K
Forks905
GitHub Desktop
GitHub Desktop
Stacks51
Followers38
Votes0
GitHub Stars20.9K
Forks10.0K

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pre-commit by Yelp
pre-commit by Yelp
GitHub Desktop
GitHub Desktop

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.

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.

node;python;ruby;pcre - "Perl Compatible Regular Expression" Specify the regex as the entry;script - A script existing inside of a repository;system - Executables available at the system level
Attribute commits with collaborators easily; Checkout branches with pull requests and view CI statuses; Syntax highlighted diffs
Statistics
GitHub Stars
14.5K
GitHub Stars
20.9K
GitHub Forks
905
GitHub Forks
10.0K
Stacks
25
Stacks
51
Followers
18
Followers
38
Votes
3
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 2
    Multiple language support
  • 1
    Modular
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Windows
Windows
Git
Git
GitHub
GitHub
macOS
macOS

What are some alternatives to pre-commit by Yelp, GitHub Desktop?

Diff So Fancy

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

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

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

Astral pulls down all of your starred repositories on GitHub and allows you to organize them using one or more tags.

GitUI

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).

ungit

ungit

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

rebase-editor

rebase-editor

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

hub

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

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.

Insight.io for Github

Insight.io for Github

Improve GitHub code browsing experience by decorating file page with x-ref. Insight.io understands the semantics of a lot of Java, Scala, C++/C, Ruby, Python, PHP repositories at github.

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