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A Git client for the Mac
Authored by: asmeurer on Dec 15, '10 01:46:34PM

Tower looks neat, but I'm not sure how I feel about using a non-open source program to handle my git stuff, which is all open source. But, then again, I do use XCode, which isn't open source (though at least it's free).



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A Git client for the Mac
Authored by: hlidotbe on Dec 15, '10 01:53:51PM

Well, there's a lot of non-libre stuff on your mac and Tower is a meere UI above GIT, nothing in it makes it irreplaceable (but it fits nicely with OSX).

That being said, there's also Gity which is free and free



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A Git client for the Mac
Authored by: asmeurer on Dec 15, '10 04:40:04PM
I don't really care about GPL vs. BSD if that is what you are getting at. Obviously, if I was a hard core open source advocate, I would be using Ubuntu or something instead of Mac OS X. It's just, with something that is open source, you can see nice forks like the one I liked to for GitX even when the main project is as good as dead.

That, and if I find a bug and am savvy enough, I can actually go in and fix it myself, rather than relying on the main devs to do it.

And open source or not, I don't want to pay for something like this (the command line interface to git isn't that bad).

I will check out Gitty, though.

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A Git client for the Mac
Authored by: asmeurer on Dec 16, '10 01:51:37PM

Well, Gity seems to be a little less good than the development version of GitX that I mentioned in another comment. In particular, it doesn't show the interweaving lines that make it so easy to see merges.

Tower is nice, but has a strange interface, some bugs, and is slow.

So, I think I am going to stick with that dev version of GitX. It's perfect for someone like me who uses git mainly in the command line, but occasionally needs a nicer way to view commit histories than some ascii log view in less.



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