>TortoiseGit is by far the best Git GUI on Windows or anywhere else
I disagree. GitExtensions is by far the best Windows UI for Git.
It's nice for being integrated with explorer, but far from the best ui. In fact I'd hold up TortoiseGit as an example of why knowing a a ui toolkit does not make a programmer a ui expert: it's a pretty terrible ui. Don't get me wrong: If you know git well and are familiar with how to use TortoiseGit then it's functional. It's just not a good first exposure to git, nor is it easy to learn.
if tortoisegit is the best there is (that's what I use since forever when I'm not actually in msysgit's shell, and usually I am - never tried anything else), then there's quite a lot of room for a better GUI client.
I mean, tortoise gets the job done, but it isn't what I'd consider fast or convenient.
It's not the best - there is Tower now.
Re:Tower for Windows
by samfisher83 on Monday October 10, 2016 @01:35PM
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+1 for TortoiseGit . It works very well.
SourceTree OTOH is slow and clunky on every platform. But even if it had a light and fast UI - it's not integrated with my file browser, which sucks. With TortoiseGit, every Git command that I need is a single click away when I'm viewing my files.