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Recommendation for multi-platform, portable, learning mode Git GUI?
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Any recommendations for a good Git GUI. Should ideally have the following characteristics:

  1. Not be very limiting i.e. can support relatively complex functions e.g. rebase, no-ff

  2. Shows Git commands being executed in a "learning mode", especially for commands with lots of options

  3. Preferably portable (does not require windows installation OR even if only windows, works like a portable application)

  4. Preferably multi-platform (so there is no learning curve between my linux machine and windows laptop.

Appealing answered 25/2, 2011 at 9:55 Comment(0)
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Git extensions supports almost all operations (for example, it supports interactive rebase). It also shows command line used for the launched operation.

Update: This is incorrect: Unfortunately it is Windows-only. It may work on linux: Git Extensions runs on multiple platforms using Mono.

Kashgar answered 5/3, 2011 at 20:22 Comment(4)
Where does it show the command line used for the launched operation - the documentation and screenshots don't show it. – Appealing
Also, the downloads page actually shows a zip file download labelled Windows and Linux, though all the files are windows specific. If it shows the command line and has a linux version, this would indeed be a very useful tool. – Appealing
@Appealing You may see command line in video tutorial mentioned on the project page: 1 Clone - Git Extensions (1 minute after start of the video) – Kashgar
@Appealing It seems, that it may work on linux: Git Extensions runs on multiple platforms using Mono I didn't know that :) – Kashgar
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I know this isn't for Windows or Linux, but Git Tower for Mac is extremely good. It does rebase, push, merges, checkouts, branching, remote branches, stashing, and more.

Ailanthus answered 4/3, 2011 at 5:2 Comment(0)
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I would recommend SmartGit. Being a pure Java application portability between Linux and Windows is no issue. The only requirements are a JRE and a Git installation.

It supports virtually all important Git commands, the only important feature missing IMO is interactive rebasing. Normal rebasing and merging is supported, though.

I think SmartGit fulfills all your requirements except (2.) as it doesn't show any Git commands executed at all.

Epictetus answered 5/3, 2011 at 15:38 Comment(0)

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