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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 05:57:03 JST Paul Cantrell

   Any recommendations for a git tool that:

   - runs on macOS, and
   - does a really nice job of the •commit• workflow: showing the diff, selecting changes to commit, maybe selecting individual lines.

   I don’t care about anything fancier that commits — not even branches! I have tools I like for all that stuff.

   I’m just looking for a nice UI for viewing and selecting uncommitted changes, something better than the clunky “stage / unstage” buttons that are the norm.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 05:59:03 JST Paul Cantrell

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     I’ve been using GitHub Desktop for this purpose — I like its commit flow — but its incessant polling of remotes for no reason whatsoever, and the ssh agent pings that creates, has finally pushed me over the edge.

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     Markus Wamser (wamserma@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 07:21:54 JST Markus Wamser

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     @inthehands LazyGit https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 03:06:07 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Chris

     @cy
     If this is an autocorrect typo, please don’t fix it

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     Chris (cy@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 03:06:09 JST Chris

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     @inthehands gut cola

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 03:42:55 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Thanks to everyone for great recommendations! Many fine options.

     Running with Fork for now: it has a great commit workflow, once I got my head around it. (Being able to commit selected fragments, even partial lines, is a killer feature).

     SourceTree and Tower are also really nice, along the high-polish lines I was looking for. Mercurial support in SourceTree is a big plus; keeping it around just for that.

     As long as we’re sharing recos, I want to put in a good word for https://gitup.co.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 03:46:28 JST Paul Cantrell

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     When I’m doing anything with the commit graph, I always lean on GitUp.

     Other tools are better for dealing with status, commit flow, logs — but if I want to manipulate the repository’s •graph•, GitUp is the one I reach for. Tricky rebase? bisect? cherry pick? history rewrite for clean PR? disaster recovery? GitUp.

     Even if doing whatever I’m doing at the command line, I’ll often leave it open just to see •what the hell I just happened• (and undo if necessary!).

     Great tool, often overlooked.

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     Yusef Napora (yusef@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 21:12:12 JST Yusef Napora

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     @inthehands it’s the tool I miss the most when not on a Mac