igoger.blogg.se - Git gui tools

Git is a set of software tools that does source code versioning. Present a lot of bothering setup wizard questions,Īnd require you to register a corporate account at the end. That take minutes to download, install and setup, This is to contrast with some other Git clients Later on a silent installer will be available. The first version presents a zip file - a portable installation package. No fancy UI, no bells and whistles approach supports the other goals too:īeing fast, lightweight and accessible and easy to setup. NitroGit offers a well-known old school classic Windows UI

keyboard shortcuts for all the actions and menu items.

careful labeling of all the UI elements.

a high contrast theme with solid default colors.

High contrast themes and keyboard shortcuts Which can be useful to work on multiple projects. It is portable, so you can have several copies of it, Which is typically 20-50 times smaller than any other Git major client app.

The current version takes less than 3 Mb of disk space, See full system requirements on the download page. One of the NitroGit goals is to support older hardware and Windows versions.Ĭurrently it supports Windows back to Vista, including 32-bit versions of Windows. New hardware, update it with the new software and keep the vicious cycle going. There’s an industry trend to make slower and slower software in order to force you into buying Supports “economy class” PCs and older Windows versions

So that beginners can always find help from people who know Git. The Git terminology is used for UI elements The UI should be transparent in what it does, The goal is to make a simple and intuitive UI for 80% of the use cases,Īnd have Git Bash integrated to help with the rest. None of the UIs can fully replace its command line. IntuitiveĬovers the most important Git usage scenarios, no bells and whistles It should not be slower to perform an operation in UI that you can do via command line. If command line Git can start quickly, there’s no reason why a GUI app couldn’t.Ĭommand line Git is our benchmark for performance on huge Git projects:

One of the goals of NitroGit is to have a snappy startup time.Įxpect half a second startup times for even huge repositores. With some other modern git clients it might take several seconds before the app launches. Minimal startup time and operation on huge Git projects NitroGit - a Git GUI client for Windows Fast