Just ran `brew cask install gitup`, cd'd into my repo and ran `gitup`. Took about 60 seconds and so far it's quite impressive.

Clicking on a commit and pressing space brings up a view showing a github-style diff, a list of all changed files, and the complete commit message. Nice.

Thanks for the tip!

Happy to share!

I had to do a site visit with a customer recently and spent some time pair programming on their codebase -- on a Windows machine and they used an awful git client -- really reminded me how much I appreciate using gitup!

Only for iUsers... Really searching for a Linux alternative !

I don't know how it compares to GitUp, but SmartGit works on Linux, Windows, and macOS. I use it on all three platforms and recommend it highly. See my other comment in the subthread for more thoughts about it.

It's not free software though.

True, SmartGit is not open source or free-as-in-speech. It is free-as-in-beer if you use it for open source or noncommercial purposes. I use it for commercial projects and didn't blink at their price - it's paid for itself many times over.

All GUI clients on Linux I tested are plenty of buttons and menus, it makes me cry...

Have you tried GitKraken? https://www.gitkraken.com/

Seems like there's a glut of these apps of late—not that I'm complaining! :-)

It's built on electron, though.

Which, as far as I know, works on Linux.

But is not open-source like Linux and Electron are.

Preach! I absolutely love gitup; all of these slice-and-dice operations that are brainteasers in command-line git are just intuitively obvious in gitup. Absolutely one of my favorite pieces of software, ever.

git is basically a brilliant repo model combined with an insane cli. gitup is the brilliant ui that the repo model deserves.

bonus awesome thing about gitup: it monitors the filesystem and updates its state in realtime, so it it's seemless to mix your workflow between cli and gui.

This looks like an awesome way to learn git, and many would probably love to continue with it - but many others too would prefer to move to the CLI.

I used to use a GUI for git, but now I just find them cumbersome; by their nature requiring me to switch window for less.

I actually used to think similarly before I found git up -- although to me it wasn't about switching window context away from the terminal but rather switching away from the text editor. I imagined that the ideal place for featureful visualization/interaction with the repo would be in the text editor/ide. In reality though -- i really like having the separate window -- it's always there, does one thing and does it well, and it's easy to switch to when I want to take a look at the state of my repo/upstream branches/any dirtiness in my checkout (what exactly have I done recently?). I regularly use three editors when working on different platforms -- Xcode, android studio, atom -- sometimes it's convenient to use in ide repo-driven features (blame, sometimes historical diffs for a single file), however very often I'm actually more interested in quickly seeing diffs for files other than the one(s) I'm currently editing -- so switching to a separate app context that's all about showing repo info tends to be the fastest way to see the relevant info I want side by side without changing away from the editing context I want. More often than not navigating to most relevant diffs within the ide would actually involve more expensive context switching -- for me I'm discovering that it's always somewhat high risk to switch editor contexts -- editing text is just such a powerful interface that it tends to easily lead down rabbit holes that take me further from the most relevant info for my current task context. Once I have the most useful buffers in the right windows, with maybe some reasonable things in the editor navigation stack -- changing the editor views at that point comes with a pretty high risk of straying off task -- or operating for awhile with the non optimal set of editor windows in front of my face -- which at some point I'll realize is dumb/wastes energy and fix -- but energy was already spent in the meanwhile ...

Honestly I'm not aware of any common repo tasks that I could more efficiently complete via the command line vs gitup. There are good keyboard shortcuts for everything in gitup so most everything I do doesn't even involve the mouse.

Also -- I'm the kind of person who's always got a set of terminal windows open and definitely uses them often (almost never use Finder, hate taking my hands off the keyboard to reach for the trackpad). At this point -- I never reach for the git cli over gitup (except when cloning a new repo).

That's interesting. On Linux?

I'm using mac at the moment, and the awful window management (and inability to properly change it - all wm apps just handle resizing and moving within existing spaces and margins) just makes me more motivated to do everything in full-screen tmux, to simulate a decent wm - as long as everything is CLI-based!

(I tried Arch on it for a while, but ended up deciding the firmware difficulties - in particular the battery draining quickly and CPU running hotter - weren't worth it; I traded i3 for full-screened tmux.)

For commands maybe, but nothing beats a graphical history tree. It's hard for a human to imagine a complex branch history without a good visual aid

I agree, and often use a `log --bunch -of --options` alias to view this - but slightly prettier rendering isn't going to make me switch window and back again.

I can't think of a single time I've actually ever cared to look at anything other than a linear history or a single file's blame. I do have a 'hist' alias set up (http://blog.wittchen.biz.pl/basics-of-git/#gist16617665), but it's not something I ever actually use.

Good for you. I'm probably not as smart and more likely to get confused without having the history laid out in the form of a clean, coloured graph. At any rate, it allows me to free whatever brain power I have for other purposes

I had a look at the tool, watched the screencast and was impressed. Then I saw, at the very bottom that this is for Macs. The disappointment...