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Alternatives to GitKraken? (self.programming)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by mesamunefire to c/[email protected]
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For the last 5(?) years or so I have been using GitKraken as my daily git driver for a while. I use it at my job mostly and love the functionality. I still use git via command line but jumping into git bash is nice no matter what os I am currently using.

I mainly use it:

  1. To see what branches have been modified (same as git tree but updates itself).
  2. Hooks into other git hosting like codeberg/gitea/forgeo without any real work. Login is also super easy and built in. Oauth is built in.
  3. Git amend is a one click interface.

There is other niceties like issue tracking, easy auto-creation of branches, etc... that I personally don't use all that much, but I can see the appeal.

The only real issue is the price. It used to be 30$ a year but now it's over 100+. I would happily pay 30 a year or pay one time for a license...but over 100 is too much in my opinion. I may go back to using all command line if the price keeps going up.

Is there any open source tools that do something similar it's the same look/feel?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I’ve been paying $35.40 after tax for Gitkraken for several years, even though it says it was canceled back in May of 2022. If you have an ongoing subscription that you haven’t canceled, you might be grandfathered in at that rate - it’s worth checking.

I looked into replacements a few years back and didn’t find any… but that said, I use a lot of git aliases, including for amending, so I mostly use GitKraken for its visual overview and conflict resolution, so for me a replacement would need to meet different criteria than for you. Doing some initial research just now, these are the ones that looked promising: