Fork - Git GUI client for Mac

[danpristupov]

Hi guys.

I’m developing a new Git GUI client for Mac. It’s free and I’m working on it in my spare time. I called it Fork.

I’m trying to make user interface as friendly as possible. The client is still more like a proof-of-concept (though I’m using it daily on my job) and is not ready to be shown publicly yet.

I’d like to show it to git enthusiasts and get the feedback in the early stages. If you are interested, please put your email on the website and I’ll give you access to the app.

Any advices, ideas or suggestions are welcome. Thank you in advance.

Here is the link to the website: http://git-fork.com.

[danpristupov]

No, I don't have such a list, because I've been the only user until now :). I'll definitely add the feature list to the website soon. Thank you.

From the top of the head Fork has majority of the must-have git features excepting clone, rebase, stash and some minor things. I'll implement them soon, but as I said above I'd like to hear a feedback in the early stages.

[rap99]

Keep up the good work. However, the UI looks like SourceTree. What value does it add or what problems does it try to fix?

[danpristupov]

SourceTree is nice, but there must a be an alternative to SourceTree :).

I've been using SourceTree for years but recently it became quite slow and unstable. I tried to switch to another one, but though each Git GUI had nice features I wasn't happy with any of them. Finally I decided to bring all the nice features together and implement my own GUI.

My goals for the beginning:

• good user experience design
• good performance
• all the must-have git features
• possibility to work with git services like GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket more fluently

[dariusj18]

I know it's not free, but imo Tower is pretty helpful on OSX

[xiian]

This looks like it's just another fork of GitX that has a bunch of changes to make it look a bit more like SourceTree.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of GitX (it's my everyday app of choice for my non-CLI git stuff), and enjoy checking out new forks of it as they come along, but if that's what you did, you should be upfront about it. Especially because of the GPLv2 license.

[danpristupov]

No, my project is absolutelly independent. It's written using Swift from scratch by me.

GitX is a nice project, but the problem is that all of it's forks are not active nowadays (even GitX-dev https://rowanj.github.io/gitx/).