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I am moving out of a windows enviroment where i used Tortoise Git. I heard linux git clients are pretty poor... can you guys help me finding a good one?

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I would recommend GitKraken because it is pretty polished, but it is closed-source.

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    Another vote for GitKraken. I just switched to it recently. It is beautifully designed and usable. And integrates with GitFlow nicely. I tried some other Linux git GUIs and they were ugly as heck, and their missing features kept leading me back to command line.
    – jwinn
    Dec 7, 2016 at 19:17
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    This looks amazing O_O
    – Kar19
    Feb 21, 2017 at 9:53
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    Downloaded and installed today. Very nice and polished, addictive gui. But the fact that it's an electron app made me uneasy, because I'm among those users who are low in RAM.
    – Anwar
    Mar 9, 2017 at 8:46
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    I've had a lot of troubles with GitKraken. It's nice and pretty, but it isn't stable or supportive of all features. Mar 11, 2017 at 5:22
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    Not only it is closed-source, but it is only free (as in beer) for non-commercial use. So be sure that you have a proper licence if using it for commercial use. May 31, 2017 at 13:09
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I use command line but two very nice eye candy GUIs here:

http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/

http://www.collab.net/products/giteye

But you should really learn to use git in command line. It will pay off.

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  • I installed SmartGit and used it a bit. It looks nice and does have nice integration with BitBucket and GitHub. thanks alot mate. May 5, 2016 at 16:18
  • GitKraken needs an internet connection and an account to connect to use it, not good for local Intranet. GitExtension too complicate to install on Linux. gitg needs a lot of additional libs to compile , stops at ./configure. So, GitEye is the one that needs nothing to run, download, uncmpress and run :), good job
    – Phiber
    Jan 12, 2018 at 19:17

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