![]() ![]() I won’t let a minor gripe with some marketing copy put me off the product though! First run experience Version control is almost exclusively used by developers, so that is a given, writing software is exclusively done by developers also. I am unsure why they have mentioned that it was made for devs by devs. I happen to agree with everything they have said there, I think GitKraken is incredibly elegant, reliable and efficient. Incredibly important when dealing with your professional work. Reliability – It works consistently and does what you would expect to happen.Elegant – It feels nice to use, it has a style and pizzaz to it.Efficient – It is quick to learn and performant.It is available on Windows and Debian (plus Ubuntu) also. Cross-platform – I had initially and mistakenly thought this was a Mac OS X application.So it will handle merging, pushing, branching, rebasing, all that good stuff. Git client – It is a client for working with the version control system git. ![]() What is GitKrakenĪxosoft GitKraken is a cross-platform Git client with efficiency, elegance and reliability at the core. I have used other GUI tools in the past but it was very long ago and I never gave any of them a fair hearing before moving back to my beloved terminal. The comparisons I draw between other ways of interacting with git are going to be exclusively with the git command line tool. I know I don’t need to say that but when reading overly positive reviews I am aware that I often think “how much was this person paid to write this”! I haven’t been paid or offered anything to write this review. This means that some features may have changed or have been added / removed if you are reading this in the future (greetings, time traveller). The version of GitKraken that I am writing about today is 1.2.0 – I mention this because Axosoft seem to have a fairly aggressive release cycle. Disclaimerīefore I start the review in earnest I want to mention a few things. The TLDR of this post is that I will not be going back to the command line for my git work. I started using GitKraken about three weeks ago and have been using it exclusively for all my git related tasks. With that said, if you had told me you use a GUI git client, I would silently assume you just hadn’t given the CLI a fair go. I think the right tool for the job differs not just from job to job, but from person to person. I am not particularly snobby when it comes to development, sure I use vim, but I like to think I am not one of those “holier than thou” developers. ![]()
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