Best Mac OSX and Windows Git Clients, servers and diff tools?

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Best Mac OSX and Windows Git Clients, servers and diff tools?

Hello,

I am currently looking for git clients for Mac OSX, I have tried the following:

GitX (Didn't like it.. doesn't seem functional enough)
Git Gui / GitK.. (Butt Ugly! i mean yuuuuuck! and not user friendly)
Source Tree (By far the best but still lacking somewhat)

Is there a functionally equivalent nice looking "versions" or "cornerstone" like client for git? or a finder integration thing like toroisegit?

Also i need to either implement a locking system or find a diff tool for VBA in excel spreadsheets?

How can i do either of these?

Oh also is there a way of managing a git server (gitosis or other) with a gui?

Thanks

Daniel

+1 A:

I have never found the need to manage a git server via the GUI since the server is just one big repo and the clients pull and push to it. In my mind, there is no need for server management here but, we just barely scratch the GIT itch at our company currently.

As gui clients go give gitbox a whirl. The layout and design is very simple and easily "fades away" when you aren't pushing and pulling. It is what many of us use, plus it is free

Braden 2010-10-27 13:12:00

Thanks tried gitbox.. it's ok but pretty feature bare.. why isnt there a full client! may have to write one myself!

Daniel Upton 2010-10-27 13:30:25

@Daniel: Because by and large, git users tend to find CLIs quite sufficient (and often much faster than GUIs). Please, no flamewars, this is just a broad generalization, not universal truth. If you do want to write one yourself, by all means, do - but you might want to use something like GitX as a starting point!

Jefromi 2010-10-27 14:00:47

Thanks..Yeah i Hate Flamewars... I Actually Really Like the CLI My Colleges arent so Keen.. Am Gonna read through the GPL 2 in a while and see if i am allowed to fork gitx (maybe sell my changes.. i know thats not the open source spirit but a mans gotta eat!)

Daniel Upton 2010-10-27 15:05:32

Full CLI here as well, I do understand the pain of trying to get colleagues working with it. If you have a couple of noobs who you are trying to get going with Git then the simplicity of Gitbox should cover it. Am I wrong? For the people who use Gitbox in our environment they rarely run into problems with its' simplicity. Just my experience.

Braden 2010-10-27 15:55:26

@Daniel: The general idea with the GPL, as far as you're concerned, is that you are perfectly welcome to fork gitx (though I would suggest simply contributing to it). This is really one of the two key ideas of the GPL - you're free to do what you want. The other idea, of course, is to protect the IP. It has to stay open source, under the GPL. You can sell copies, sure, but you also have to make the source freely available.

Jefromi 2010-10-27 19:10:55

@Jefromi Yeah that's what I thought.. Any idea weather it counts to opensource some but keep some of my components closed source?

Daniel Upton 2010-10-28 07:53:42

@Braden yeah thats a good point.. It's a shame there's not something like cornerstone for subversion.. But I guess subversions a lot less powerful so it'd be hard to get all the power into a slick UI

Daniel Upton 2010-10-28 08:01:57

@Daniel: Anything which is derived from GPL-licensed material must be GPL'ed. Please don't try to evade this. (I also don't understand why you want to. You can get a lot of help, both in development and feedback, on an open source project that you'd never get on a closed source one. If your end goal is a GUI you're happy with, that's a very very good thing.)

Jefromi 2010-10-28 13:28:00

I too looked for a GUI for a while...but couldn't find anything I liked. In the meantime I used the CLI and now I doubt I'd switch even if a good GUI became available. With the CLI there is no waiting for a GUI app to load, no logging in, and it's just fast...exactly what I was looking for but didn't know it.

For managing a server, possibly...Gitorious or Indefero

dgnorton 2010-10-27 15:32:54

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