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Discussion on: Why Git Fork Is My Favorite Git Client

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Sorin Sbarnea • Edited

While Fork is cool keep in mind is not open-source. Based on previous experience with more than a dozen of git gui clients, anything not open-source will only become more expensive with time. I would gladly sponsor it if it was an open-source and even contribute with fixes. Meanwhile SourceTree is open but it lacks behind, especially as Atlassian did not spend much effort on it after they acquired it.

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Chad Adams

This post was written almost 2 years ago. I use the built in git from VSCode now. At least for me it does everything I need it to and I don’t have to leave my code editor.

SourceTree was the first Git GUI I used but it was very buggy and slow for me.

As far as Fork becoming more expensive, sure everything does. Fork used to be free the only reason they made people pay for it was because so many people were telling them they should make people pay for it. At least it will help support them. It’s only a man and his wife making it. This was before GitHub sponsers came out.