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I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla

Sapling SCM GitHub CLI Pijul lazygit
  1. A scalable, user-friendly source control system.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Git #Code Collaboration #Git Tools 13 social mentions

  2. Official CLI tool for using GitHub from the command-line.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    From the second article, a minor point but possibly helpful to other here, he contrasts doing everything in the terminal with stacked commits vs going to the Github UI. If people aren't aware, Github offers a cli tool[1]. I've been using it for a few months now and am finding it does make me more productive -- it's nice to be able to open up a PR directly from my terminal. I do still use the GH UI for a lot of things, but I'll often at least start in the terminal, and it also makes the transition from terminal to browser easy as many commands support the `--web` flag open up the right page for you (eg `gh repo view --web`). [1] https://cli.github.com/.

    #Productivity #Git #Code Collaboration 104 social mentions

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    Pijul is a free and open source distributed version control system based on a sound theory of...
    I hope one day Pijul[1] will become more common, as the more advanced alternative to git. [1] https://pijul.org/.

    #Git #Code Collaboration #Git Tools 41 social mentions

  4. Simple terminal UI for git commands.
    It's a low-level tool. Imagine writing code with Microsoft Word. There are layers on top of Git that give you more of what you're looking for. - https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui - https://magit.vc/.

    #Git #Git Tools #Development 81 social mentions

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