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Discussion on: What GIT GUI client do you use?

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Neel

Funny thing is that I actually made my own (😜). I was using GitKraken back in 2019 and it is honestly great. Greater than github desktop tbh.

Then I got comfortable with bash and started using that actively. Along with the js based projects I maintain, I also have a bunch of bash scripts on my digitalocean droplet which I constantly modify. So I needed a git UI client to track what has actually changed in the scripts. Git diff is good but visualizing things on the shell is not the same as viewing it from a UI layer. So I made a web based UI client crafted with React and Node JS. The web based UI client was originally developed for Linux and Mac alone, later it was made compatible with windows.

It's available as an npm package, so I just run it from the command line and open it in the browser to use it on the go. Using git from terminal is fine for me but this platform makes a few things better such as commit log tracking and intuitive source code diff.

github.com/neel1996/gitconvex

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Madza

Wow, this is cool 🤩 Good job! 😉