GitUp

GitUp is an open source altetnative. Probably less feature rich than SM but powerful enough to be efficient. https://github.com/git-up/GitUp

Not quite true, though while I was there, many fellow employees misunderstood the rules to mean that you couldn't use GPL software on your machine. At least as of a few years ago, the official ruling was that any open-source software _required_ for you to do your job had to be approved by an internal oversight group of sorts, and GPL and AGPL software was right out. You could, however, use any open-source software you wanted (including GPL and AGPL) so long as it was (1) for personal use, (2) not absolutely mandatory for you to do your job (e.g. some niche software or library propping up your employment), and (3) there was some other alternative tool that you could use if necessary. So, for instance, a GPL-licensed git client like GitUp[1] was fine to use, and didn't require clearance. You could totally also install a newer version of Nan

I Ctrl+F'd for GitUp based on the title, it deserves mention here. It's all-in on Mac, unfortunately. https://github.com/git-up/GitUp > GitUp is built as a thin layer on top of a [Mac-only] reusable generic Git toolkit called "GitUpKit".

On Mac, I prefer Gitup, a free and open source GUI which makes rebases (and a bunch of other git operations) much easier: https://github.com/git-up/GitUp

OSX only, but GitUp is the only GUI got tool I have used that feels like it actually is helpful for a git workflow. I _really_ wish it worked on Linux, but it's basically not possible without an entire rewrite. https://github.com/git-up/GitUp

> For more complex operations nothing beats the CLI. I think that's only because most of the UIs are so bad! Manipulating a graph is something that I think inherently is actually quite visual. GitUp[0] has excellent graph-editing facilities, and has replaced almost all of my git command-line machinations. Alas, it's semi-abandoned and left in a perpetual state of 90% doneness... A little challenge, if you're interested: Give some git manipulations you would do on the command line, and I will show you how to do it more easily in GitUp, or concede defeat. :-) [0] https://github.com/git-up/GitUp

Someone is currently maintaining a fork of GitUp that adds a text size slider in preferences. On the other hand, maintainer’s response is a bit disheartening suggesting they have not (yet) encountered the eyesight issue themselves. See this feature request: https://github.com/git-up/GitUp/issues/470

GitUp[1] is an excellent alternative to gitx and ungit, for those unhappy with either. [1]: https://github.com/git-up/GitUp

It is Mac only, but it is open source (Obj-C). Some enterprising developer could port it to Windows or Linux. https://github.com/git-up/GitUp

For people just looking for a git client on Macs, I've been using GitUp for the past couple month's and it's amazing. - In-app git implementation for all operations; does not use the git command line at all - Lightning fast* (*for reasonably sized repos; it's not yet optimized for super large repos) - Simple yet powerful UI -- treats git as a graph and let's you operate on that graph. - Commit graph visualization that's actually useful (IMO) I used to use mostly the command line with fallback to magit in emacs; now I almost exclusively use GitUp. Obviously I'm still in the honeymoon/fanboy phase, but I really feel like it deserves to be better-known. Check it out! http://gitup.co https://github.com/git-up/GitUp

I'll be writing a few more sample code in the coming days but you can already see how simple the API is: https://github.com/git-up/GitUp/blob/master/GitDown/AppDeleg.... GitUpKit is a multi-level API design so you can just use exactly what you need from each level depending on how much control you need (e.g. you can use a raw diff rendering view or a ready-to-use full-featured diff view). Happy to answer questions if any or just visit http://forums.gitup.co/ where the GitUp community lives.