I was looking at video reviews of git GUI clients. The best ones are pricey and we are two people occasionally editing some webpages for our business website. It’s hosted on GitLab Pages.
Can anyone recommend something straightforward? I’ll be sticking to the terminal but my colleague is new to code repositories.
Git GUI is free, but looks terrible IMO. Sublime have a nice one and it’s not subscription based, but is expensive. We are both on Mac usually.
Another alternative I considered was showing them the three terminal commands I use mainly (add, commit and push) and then let them edit from the file manager itself. But because they’ll be doing this so rarely, it might be easy to forget.
Edit: I’ve settled on a few to try out: sourcetree, fork, gitup and the one by Sublime. The conversation doesn’t have to end there, but thanks for the help. So many great answers here :)
Not gui, but tui, lazygit is my favourite. It’s got all the features you could need, help with ?, and doesn’t limit stashes like github desktop for litterally no reason. If that doesn’t work for you have you tried github desktop?
lazygit is by far the best git ui imo. you have to give a shit to learn how to use it correctly (same goes for any tool), but the developer has made fantastic demo videos explaining the features. He has clearly used git professionally for a long time, and built something to solve the exact real-world git problems.
I guess I wouldn’t give lazygit to someone with no git experience… I would set up some branch protection rules asap so they can’t use a ui to force reset a main branch or something.
I was impressed with that video (linked in another comment I think).