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GitKraken vs Rails Spring: What are the differences?

What is GitKraken? Git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux built on Electron. The downright luxurious Git client for Windows, Mac and Linux. Cross-platform, 100% standalone, and free.

What is Rails Spring? Rails application preloader. Spring is a Rails application preloader. It speeds up development by keeping your application running in the background so you don't need to boot it every time you run a test, rake task or migration.

GitKraken belongs to "Source Code Management Desktop Apps" category of the tech stack, while Rails Spring can be primarily classified under "Rails Testing".

Rails Spring is an open source tool with 2.51K GitHub stars and 274 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Rails Spring's open source repository on GitHub.

Tradecore, SCORE42, and Atbox are some of the popular companies that use GitKraken, whereas Rails Spring is used by Referral SaaSquatch, Jollydays, and Ordina Belgium. GitKraken has a broader approval, being mentioned in 43 company stacks & 38 developers stacks; compared to Rails Spring, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Pros of GitKraken
Pros of Rails Spring
  • 59
    Dark theme
  • 34
    Best linux git client
  • 29
    Great overview
  • 21
    Full featured client
  • 20
    Gitflow support
  • 19
    Beautiful UI
  • 18
    Very easy to use
  • 16
    Graph
  • 13
    Works great on both linux and windows
  • 13
    Effortless
  • 6
    Easy Merge Conflict Tool
  • 5
    Amazing Github and Bitbucket integration
  • 4
    Great UX
  • 3
    Integration with GitHub
  • 3
    Automatic Repo Discovery
  • 3
    Submodule support
  • 3
    Easy to Learn and Setup
  • 3
    Super fast
  • 2
    Fuzzy find (CTRL P)
  • 1
    Very user friendly
  • 1
    Much more stable than source tree
  • 1
    Great for non-dev users
  • 1
    Because it has Linux client
  • 1
    Command palette (CTRL Shift P)
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    Cons of GitKraken
    Cons of Rails Spring
    • 3
      Extremely slow when working with large repositories
    • 3
      No edit/fixup in interactive rebase
    • 3
      Hangs occasionally (not as bad as sourcetree)
    • 2
      Not as many features as sourcetree
    • 2
      Do not allow to directly edit staging area
    • 2
      Does not work like a Mac app
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      What is GitKraken?

      The downright luxurious Git client for Windows, Mac and Linux. Cross-platform, 100% standalone, and free.

      What is Rails Spring?

      Spring is a Rails application preloader. It speeds up development by keeping your application running in the background so you don't need to boot it every time you run a test, rake task or migration.

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      What are some alternatives to GitKraken and Rails Spring?
      SourceTree
      Use the full capability of Git and Mercurial in the SourceTree desktop app. Manage all your repositories, hosted or local, through SourceTree's simple interface.
      Tower
      Use all of Git's powerful feature set - in a GUI that makes you more productive.
      GitKraken Glo
      A more productive way for developers to track tasks and issues from inside GitKraken, VS Code, Atom or a browser! Glo Boards sync in real-time with GitHub Issues, support markdown and offer lots of time-saving features for devs.
      GitHub
      GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
      SmartGit
      It is a graphical Git client with support for SVN and Pull Requests for GitHub and Bitbucket. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.
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