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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any windows screenshots?

(Fork is also an awful name in terms of searching for it btw)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

(there's also a couple more here: https://git-fork.com/)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You have my attention

Do they have a Linux client though?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sadly no and i don't think it works through wine

but technically they have a mac client which is basically an expensive version of linux

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not really. It’s BSD, and even then the layout of the OS is quite far from BSD. Besides that you have a lot more technical stuff. Just use wine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wish! The best Linux git gui I have found is SmartGit. I like it, but it's just a little goofy and not free. Fork is better for its ability to very easily stage and/or stash a subset of the current changeset.

Anyone got any suggestions? I tried git-cola and gitkraken. The former I found obtuse and limited, and the latter is not free in addition to somehow making git harder with a pretty gui.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gitkraken is free as long as the repository is public, which seems like an alright compromise to me. The only problem I had with it was that it was electron. What did it make harder for you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just really detest the UI. And I have private repos I have to work with as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The best ones I have found for Linux are SmartGit and Sublime Merge, but neither are free in any sense. Sublime Merge is slightly cheaper. SmartGit offers a free "hobby license" but it limits which kinds of repos you can work with.

Gitkraken looks like it might be good but I haven't used it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate coding on Windows, maybe I'll check that out. (My only option is Windows for my work laptop because I need to use a few Windows-only softwares and IT says I'm not allowed to dual boot)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is running Linux off a USB drive possible? It isn't ideal, but you can still have persistence if needed? There is also WSL, if you don't need a GUI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

After the last windows update WSL gives me a BSoD every time 😭 Pretty sure IT wouldn't appreciate me running Ubuntu off a USB drive but that's a good idea.

[–] eluvatar 3 points 1 year ago

Been using it for years it's great