vscode-git-graph VS tortoisegit

Quite a while ago, the GitLens+ plugin gained the Commit Graph feature--the same graph you see in GitKraken. Until then I had used Git Graph for visualizing my repositories and GitLens+ for git blame in the GUI. Since one plugin could now do both, the natural course of action was to remove the other--goodbye, Git Graph!

I'm a paying user of Fork, it's my favorite Git GUI, I love it.

However, it "only" supports macOS and Windows. I'm migrating to Linux for my work and home computers, so I haven't used it in a while, just so I can get familiar with other tools available on Linux - and, importantly, learning to do more advanced Git operations in the terminal.

So far I still depend on a GUI, mainly VS Code's built-in Git integration and GitGraph.

https://github.com/mhutchie/vscode-git-graph

Also looking at GitLens: https://www.gitkraken.com/gitlens

..But I sure miss using Fork. I used it everyday for the last couple years. It does everything I want to do with Git, the UI is familiar and well-designed.

I see the main developer @DanPristupov is on HN, maybe he'd consider supporting Linux? I fully understand if you don't, since creating the same application for two OSes must be quite difficult already, especially for a small team rather than a company.

Probably the most underrated software I use daily are some of my Firefox extensions.

https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector redirects my YouTube, Google, Twitter and Reddit links to privacy friendly frontends (i.e. Invidious, Startpage, Nitter and Libreddit).

https://github.com/proginosko/LeechBlockNG helps me staying away from time sinks on the internet during the day.

On the development side I use...

https://github.com/aaronvegh/nsregextester as my tried and true tool for regex debugging.

https://github.com/mhutchie/vscode-git-graph is a marvelous Git GUI for VSCode.

VS Code does not appear to provide a stylesheet or anything to help you get off the ground, AFAICT… I wish they did. Every extension I know of has to implement basic components from scratch, styling and all. Seems like a lot of boilerplate is necessary before you can start developing anything the user will see on screen.

There is also a TortoiseGit that is based on TortoiseSVN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TortoiseGit

https://tortoisegit.org/

TortoiseGit sourcetree git kraken some times you need to compare to files you can do this with the notpad++ compare plugin or with Meld

Instead on my PC I use TortoiseGit. Most useful for the git log (as a graph), diff with previous versions,, filter files to commit by directory and ability to exclude files from the current commit, and most of all; ease of splitting a commit for each single file into parts by ability to "restore after commit" which allows you to edit a file before the commit and have it automatically restored to the pre-commit state afterwards.

If running TeXStudio in Windows, my personal preference is to keep the automatic check-in disabled and to use the manual one (File -> SVN/git -> Check in); this allows an individual commit message with the briefer abstract line, empty line, and the longer report. Perhaps it is less exhaustive then a proper git client (in Windows e.g., tortoise), yet TeXStudio' GUI and integrated version control allows to resolve many typical situations. The developers document as advanced use; heck, after some time, it becomes second nature. In case of missing git-related functionality, you still can opt for an other git GUI or for git from the command line independent of TeXStudio's choice.

> We now have a large selection of tools that allow you to visualize what's going on (I use git-kraken), as well as google for help on doing something that isn't in muscle memory.

Git Kraken is excellent, though Git has a page on various GUIs, many of which are free with no restrictions: https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis

Personally, on Windows I like SourceTree: https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/

Some that have worked with SVN back in the day like TortoiseGit: https://tortoisegit.org/

On *nix Git Cola seems to do the job for me: https://git-cola.github.io/

Then again, the most complex workflow I've worked with was Git Flow and I didn't need anything more advanced than that. Come to think of it, I don't really do rebases often either and mostly just take advantage of squashing commits through GitLab/Gitea and such, when needed.

But hey, that's also valid, using Git in a way where you get version control but mostly keep the technical details out of your way (though Git LFS and certain cases with particular line endings being needed does make you drop down occasionally).

The method to add the illustration to git, either from the command line, or via a GUI (for example TortoiseGit) should not have an influence how the image is managed by git itself. There is no "watermark" like stamp on the picture from which you later could tell if the picture, or the edit on the picture was committed from the CLI, or e.g., tortoise, either.

I started with TortoiseGit (coming from TortoiseSVN), then used SourceTree for a while (until Atlassian broke it. I hear it is better now), but I’ve settled in GitKraken for my work stuff where I need to maintain full histories while ping-ponging code features between many branches. I’ve heard great things about GitTower too.