Git undo: We can do better

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Fork

I'm a huge fan of git fork [1] on windows (or mac). Looks good, never failed me and does everything I need (branching, merging, rebasing, cherry picking, blaming and it can even show lost commits with reflog). And it performs really well (in contrary to sourcetree). [1] https://git-fork.com/.

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2

GitHub Desktop

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GitUp

While GitUp is a GUI app, and only available for macOS, I think it's worth noting that it has some great undo/redo capabilities built in. From what I understand, some of them were more feasible to develop because they implemented their own plumbing (GitUpKit), instead of relying on the official git plumbing. https://gitup.co/.

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lazygit

I've said this in other threads but I'll proselytize here as well. I really started to grok git after using the lazygit terminal UI. I think it's really handy to see what the current "state" of git is in and how to browse it easily. Would continue to recommend. https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit.

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Gitless

I agree that collaborative text editing between multiple users simultaneously is hard. That doesn't mean that Git couldn't have a much better UI for this problem than it does. And while I agree that Git seems to have mostly won over SVN and Hg, it doesn't follow that it's because of its UI. (For example, I think that a lot of Git's success actually comes from the UI of GitHub, not Git itself, but I don't have evidence to back it up.) Take a look at the Research section at the bottom of https://gitless.com/ for work that's been done on how to accomplish the same operations with a simpler conceptual model.

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TortoiseGit

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