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GitAhead

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GitAhead lets you filter results and performs advanced searches. It shows you exactly what you need to see and makes navigating through thousands of commits a piece of cake.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
Discontinued

No longer under active development, per info in repo at https://github.com/gitahead/gitahead#please-note but there's a fork called Gittyup icon Gittyup that you can try.

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  1.  Optimal performance
  2.  Minimalistic

Features

  1. Git icon  Git Support
  2.  Dark Mode

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  • Developed by

    US flagScientific Toolworks, Inc.
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4
  • Alternatives

    51 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  1,868 Stars
  •  251 Forks
  •  298 Open Issues
  •   Updated Apr 16, 2024 
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Our users have written 8 comments and reviews about GitAhead, and it has gotten 58 likes

GitAhead was added to AlternativeTo by devaldo on Sep 18, 2017 and this page was last updated Nov 10, 2022.

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Top Positive Comment
JTB3
Jul 24, 2018
3

Nice cross-platform Git client with native code optimization, dark theme, and free non-commercial licensing!

Killy
Aug 6, 2018

License management seems to be bothersome even for non-commercial use though.

Top Negative Comment
Alexey Mak
Nov 3, 2019
3

I leave this warning for users who would like to use it with UE4 GitHub Source.

It can fetch a source from GitHub, but if you try to switch a branch it will cause a memory leak and eat all the Ram you have (16Gb in my case), causing the windows to hang with Out of Memory error.

Plus it's very laggy when navigating the tree. It takes from 10 seconds to a few minutes to refresh when you click a commit. Ofc we're talking about Git repository of several Gb in size.

Another issue is that there is no difference between repositories on GitHub account if they are your personal ones or part of an organization (Epic Games and Nvidia repositories will be mixed with your forks having the same names under the same tree).

Right now it can't compete with SourceTree. But I really hope the performance issues will be fixed in the future.

OAKSIF0
Mar 26, 2021

Could be because its a massive repo. Open an Issue on GitHub.

neilAngstrom
Aug 19, 2021
1

Unlike SmartGit, GitKraken and similar competitors, GitAhead is completely free. No need to pay for commercial use. And it still includes all the most frequent features I used in those competitors.

Dom P
Jul 2, 2021
0

I think it's the best git client there is. Conceptually, at least. There hasn't been a new Windows build in a year and it's loaded with bugs that make using it basically impossible. The repo has had updates though, for anyone who can build it themselves. Maybe these problems are technically solved. But I'd love to use it. Only feature it's missing that I think others have better is image diffing.

alerque
Sep 1, 2020
0

Now that Fork started prompting for $50 and GitKraken cannot be used for private or self hosted repos any more, this is the best free graphical Git client I know of. And you know what. it isn't just good because it's free, it's actually very good in its own right.

User9571716
Oct 2, 2019
1

After Gitkraken decision to remove access to private repositories for free versions, GitAhead seems to be a quite good alternative. Some very useful features are still missing:

  • compact view of git log
  • graphical tool to solve git rebase (or merge) conflicts
  • graphical tool to do an interactive git rebase
  • git squash And lots of small graphical modifications could be done to reach the simplicity and the usability of Gitkraken interface for everyday actions like commit, stage, commit amend, stash, etc.
AdinanCenci
Oct 9, 2019

Exactly why I am here. It is not as beautiful as Gitkraken, but it is very good

Alexandre ZANNI
Sep 18, 2019
1

Open-source, efficient, cross-platform and beautiful.

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What is GitAhead?

GitAhead lets you filter results and performs advanced searches. It shows you exactly what you need to see and makes navigating through thousands of commits a piece of cake.

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