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Shades:
The Fork Git client is 49 USD if I remember correctly. My boss is the user who deals with both CVS (his favorite versioning system) and Git, the favorite of the main architect in the company receiving the code we produce. And he found this to be a very reasonable price for Fork. To date it is also a one-time fee. If this changes in the future? My crystal ball is too fogged up to see, I'm afraid.

Deozaan:
I installed TortoiseGit. It appears to only be a shell extension which adds some context menus to Windows Explorer. I was expecting a GUI like TortoiseHg's Workbench. :down:

Resolved(?): How to connect to GitLab using SourceTree?

After that I tried spending a bit more time with GitHub Desktop now that I realize it can work with GitLab. It seems pretty adequate for the job. Though it appears to be a very bare bones git client that is missing some features, such as the option to stash changes for later.

The Fork Git client is 49 USD if I remember correctly. My boss is the user who deals with both CVS (his favorite versioning system) and Git, the favorite of the main architect in the company receiving the code we produce. And he found this to be a very reasonable price for Fork. To date it is also a one-time fee. If this changes in the future? My crystal ball is too fogged up to see, I'm afraid.
-Shades (April 14, 2021, 01:45 AM)
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Briefly checking out Fork's free evaluation and it actually looks pretty nice. It seems I had downloaded the installer last October in my search for GUI Git clients, but never installed it for some reason. Anyway, after playing around with it for about 10 minutes I'm really impressed by it. I'm still pretty new to Git, so I'm not aware of all the differences in features or workflow compared to Hg, but Fork appears to have all the features and support the workflows I'm familiar with.

I can't find any information on their website or within the program itself as to how long the free evaluation lasts or what limitations it has, other than "you can download and evaluate the Software for free, but need to purchase a license for long-term use." But I'm already thinking it may be worth the $50 asking price. It definitely feels a lot better than SourceTree, which is just getting more and more bloated and convoluted over the years.

It's a shame there's not a version for Linux, which I do occasionally (though very rarely) do some development on. Even so, I'm looking forward to working with it more and seeing if I remain impressed with it as time goes on. Thanks very much for the recommendation! :Thmbsup:

Shades:
Here is a nice overview from available Git Clients and for which operating systems these are available.

After a period Fork won't start anymore.

wraith808:
I formerly used SourceTree and still do occasionally, but for the most part, I just use VS Code or Git Extensions. I've been wanting to take a look at Sublime Merge- just haven't taken the time yet. I'll add Fork to that list.

As far as Bitbucket vs Github vs Gitlab - I don't trust any of them totally, so use all of them equally, in addition to having a server on my own NAS.

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