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Giggle: A Git GUI

Giggle: A Git GUI

Posted Jun 2, 2010 20:02 UTC (Wed) by fb (subscriber, #53265)
Parent article: Giggle: A Git GUI

I disagree with your comment about git on Eclipse. IMO eclipse lacks a decent git plugin. Egit, currently in incubation phase at the Eclipse foundation, is very limited. It can't do one fourth of what the subversion plugin can (WRT being a eclipse plugin).

It can't for instance offer a proper GUI front end to "git blame".

FWIW I've been using gitg as my commit frontend for a couple of months. While I wish for improvements (it reports an error on revert, and it needs a patch to avoid resizing on extremely long commit comments), I find it the most useful of all git GUIs.

For fast history browsing I always use TIG.


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Giggle: A Git GUI

Posted Jun 2, 2010 23:46 UTC (Wed) by alexmurray (subscriber, #60581) [Link]

Indeed, gitg is much faster than giggle especially when browsing large trees like the linux kernel - start-up is almost instantaneous compared to the 15-20 seconds of giggle. The author should definitely give this a go instead.

Giggle: A Git GUI

Posted Jun 3, 2010 8:48 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

A lot of GUIs have been mentioned, I sense a grumpy editor's article coming up... (It is definitely in order.)

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