Anyone know of a point and click graphical tool for git? I've seen the branches and merges from the console but if I simply want to take git to a specific commit hash, it can easily devolve into hours of research.
I believe the problem here is that even though there are only a finite number of choices (less than a dozen in everyday life) representing what I want to accomplish, there are countless ways of getting there with commands. I just don't remember having these kinds of problems with svn, so I think the difficulty is not conceptual, but due to a poor mapping between the concepts and the interface.
I'm thinking something like Apple's Time Machine, where you click a commit and the repo shows up on the desktop as a mounted drive. We could use ordinary tools to edit the image and when it's unmounted it becomes a new commit (or something along those lines).
I like SmartGit enough that I paid $80 for it (despite the fact that it seems weird to pay money for dev tools these days). You can download it and use it free for non-commercial use, though.
I'm reasonably comfortable with the git command-line tools, but for keeping the simple things simple I really do like an integrated all-in-one visual diff/VCS client program and SmartGit is the best one I've used for git.
SourceTree (mentioned by fsk) is kind of a trainwreck on Windows, in my experience (moving to SmartGit was the result of me getting fed up with SourceTree and looking for something not as frustrating). From what I understand the Mac version works better, though I haven't used it. While the UI is quite nice to start, the Windows version of SourceTree tends to soft-hang a lot (goes into non-responsive states it eventually recovers from, but will hang for like 30+ seconds at times) and it has a lot of weird issues with multi-monitor setups (it'll sometimes randomly jump to the other monitor during pane resizing and such).
git comes with `gitk` and `git instaweb` out of the box; both of these are point-and-click graphical tools that show you branches, merges, and specific commit hashes.
I think what you're looking for here
you click a commit and the repo shows up on the desktop as a mounted drive. We could use ordinary tools to edit the image and when it's unmounted it becomes a new commit
is basically `git checkout -b newbranch 80238ec` followed by `git commit -a`.
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Anyone know of a point and click graphical tool for git? I've seen the branches and merges from the console but if I simply want to take git to a specific commit hash, it can easily devolve into hours of research.
I believe the problem here is that even though there are only a finite number of choices (less than a dozen in everyday life) representing what I want to accomplish, there are countless ways of getting there with commands. I just don't remember having these kinds of problems with svn, so I think the difficulty is not conceptual, but due to a poor mapping between the concepts and the interface.
I'm thinking something like Apple's Time Machine, where you click a commit and the repo shows up on the desktop as a mounted drive. We could use ordinary tools to edit the image and when it's unmounted it becomes a new commit (or something along those lines).
SourceTree (by BitBucket) has a decent GUI Git client.
The official github client is trash. The last time I used it was a year ago, so it might have improved since then.
Still is.(gave it a try yesterday. Not a lot has changed.)
I do like the git-bash on Windows, though. For some reason I've avoided installing cygwin.... ever.
I like SmartGit enough that I paid $80 for it (despite the fact that it seems weird to pay money for dev tools these days). You can download it and use it free for non-commercial use, though.
I'm reasonably comfortable with the git command-line tools, but for keeping the simple things simple I really do like an integrated all-in-one visual diff/VCS client program and SmartGit is the best one I've used for git.
SourceTree (mentioned by fsk) is kind of a trainwreck on Windows, in my experience (moving to SmartGit was the result of me getting fed up with SourceTree and looking for something not as frustrating). From what I understand the Mac version works better, though I haven't used it. While the UI is quite nice to start, the Windows version of SourceTree tends to soft-hang a lot (goes into non-responsive states it eventually recovers from, but will hang for like 30+ seconds at times) and it has a lot of weird issues with multi-monitor setups (it'll sometimes randomly jump to the other monitor during pane resizing and such).
git comes with `gitk` and `git instaweb` out of the box; both of these are point-and-click graphical tools that show you branches, merges, and specific commit hashes.
I think what you're looking for here
is basically `git checkout -b newbranch 80238ec` followed by `git commit -a`.
I like Source Tree for Windows and Gitg/Gitx on Linux/Mac. Also recommend downloading P4 Merge and setting that up as your default merge tool.