Rui CarmoThe SCM du jour, which replaced Mercurial for me, and with a number of followers largely due to the massive amount of projects managed with it (and GitHub’s rise in popularity).
Resources
| Date | Platform | Link | Notes |
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| 2025 | Soft Serve | A self-hosted Git server with a text interface, written in Go |
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| 2023 | git-secret | A tool to store your private data inside a git repository |
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| OneDev | A possible GitLab replacement for on-prem setups |
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| Mac | GitUp | A nice Mac GUI with undo and history editing features |
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| 2018 | lazygit | nice terminal-based wrapper |
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| 2014 | Gitblit | A Java based solution. |
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| Gitlist | A PHP front-end |
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| Gitfs | A FUSE filesystem that keeps track of changes |
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| Gogs | A self-hosting Go solution, pretty neat. |
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| 2013 | libgit2 | A linkable library for git |
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| gittle | A high-level Python implementation based on Dulwich |
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| klaus | A Python-based repository browser |
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| 2012 | git-extras | A set of extensions for team work. |
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| 2011 | Mac | GitX | Another fork with even more features |
| gitx | A fork of the traditional GitX with a number of new features |
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| 2010 | Gitbox | Free for up to three repos. |
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| gitnub | RubyCocoa, plays nice with github, requires some tweaking. |
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| GitMac | Also in beta. No remarkable features. |
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| GitX | The classic. |
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| Gity | Simple and straightforward UI. |
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| Gitti | In beta. Seems to have a decent revision graph. |
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| Multiple | Dulwich | a pure Python implementation |
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| SparkleShare | Wants to be Dropbox as well |
Notes
Dealing with line endings
Use git config --global core.autocrlf input to have git convert files to LF ending when committing (essential if you are dealing with legacy codebases).