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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.
Pros of GitKraken
- Dark theme59
- Best linux git client34
- Great overview29
- Full featured client21
- Gitflow support20
- Beautiful UI19
- Very easy to use18
- Graph16
- Works great on both linux and windows13
- Effortless13
- Easy Merge Conflict Tool6
- Amazing Github and Bitbucket integration5
- Great UX4
- Integration with GitHub3
- Automatic Repo Discovery3
- Submodule support3
- Easy to Learn and Setup3
- Super fast3
- Fuzzy find (CTRL P)2
- Very user friendly1
- Much more stable than source tree1
- Great for non-dev users1
- Because it has Linux client1
- Command palette (CTRL Shift P)1
Pros of Rails Spring
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Cons of GitKraken
- Extremely slow when working with large repositories3
- No edit/fixup in interactive rebase3
- Hangs occasionally (not as bad as sourcetree)3
- Not as many features as sourcetree2
- Do not allow to directly edit staging area2
- Does not work like a Mac app2