visualizing-git VS desktop

I worked on this interactive git tree explorer (forked from here), which may be helpful (for some reason it only works in Chrome).

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Since you asked, I just published Head First Git. I did a "Show HN" that didn't get much traction, but rather than repeating what I said there, I'll just post the link—https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30072348

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And to the point many others made, there are a _lot_ of resources out there, but if you are looking to start back at the basics, I feel my book (which is designed for beginners) might be a good start.

Of course there is the canonical Pro Git (https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2) book.

And once you understand the _Directed Acyclic Graph_ I feel https://github.com/git-school/visualizing-git is a great project to see what happens when you run certain operations in Git.

Perhaps you've concluded that I love Git, and I love teaching it—I am @looselytyped on Twitter (DMs are open) if you want to reach out and we can carry out a conversation elsewhere—always willing to talk Git.

Congrats on the launch! It's always exciting to see more competition in the version control space.

One question I have is whether you guys are better than:

https://desktop.github.com/

This seems to do the exact same thing, be free forever, and have a more mature GUI that is also easier to use than regular terminal git. In my firm, even with people who don't know how to code, they can use github desktop (since it babies you through the process of committing code.)

- Product designers for open-source hardware. Various design files, SVG etc.

I’ve experimented with a “GUI only” git flow - just to see what is possible, so I could introduce the concept to others.

I found GitHub desktop app (https://desktop.github.com/)did a great job of visually showing git flows and functions, but for a non-tech/programmming person, the tool would be daunting.

Curiosity what your suggested tech stack would be - sans Terminal…

just use github desktop its an open source tool https://desktop.github.com/

Download and install GitHub Desktop if you haven't already.

3️⃣ GitHub Desktop: A desktop application provided by GitHub that allows you to interact with Git repositories visually. It provides an easy way to clone repositories, commit changes, create branches, and push and pull changes. Website: https://desktop.github.com/

GitHub Desktop - much, much easier than installing and setting up Git yourself (free)

GitHub Desktop - Price: Free Git client for Mac that allows you to manage your GitHub repositories.