SmartGit

I use SmartGit for almost 2 years now and it is a great product. That I knew, what I've learned the last days is that they have a great support.

The support team helped me a lot with a problem that I had after updating java on my PC.
I had an issue pulling from bitbucket with https and they spent hours with me fixing it event though I have a non commercial license so they could just say, go and buy a license then we will support you.

In my opinion we need more companies like this one and I will be very glad to tell everyone how good they are.

Thanks to all the team...

I prefer functionality over form when it comes to a critical tool like my Git client, and SmartGit has loads of additional functionality compared to all the other ones I have tried. It may not be as pretty as some clients, but I honestly do not care about that. Its interface is clean, flexible, and very powerful. It has frequent updates which I always look forward to, and it has one-time purchase options in addition to subscriptions, which seems rare these days. It also has a one-time purchase option for lifetime updates, which is what I opted for.

SmartGit doesn't try to obfuscate how Git works like a lot of other clients do. With those types of clients I feel like you may never end up understanding how Git works. SmartGit is easy to use, but also allows you to learn how Git works over time by providing easy access to all the underlying functionality so you'll become comfortable with edge-case issues with Git and be able to solve them, and actually just use Git "better" for day-to-day activities.

One significant bonus about SmartGit is that it works on Windows/Linux/Mac with the exact same interface. Previously, I had different clients on Windows/Mac, and I would always have to fumble around on Mac b/c I didn't use it as often.

In the end, SmartGit is just a joy to use, and is by far my favorite tool that I had any real choice in selecting (unlike Visual Studio for instance).

How people like this program is beyond me.

It's like the TortoiseGit nightmare in that it's built around several layers of windows all showing redundant and different information, making finding what you need incredibly clunky and unintuitive. You can't checkout a commit from the Journal view, you have to switch to Review view. Oh, there's a conflict. You can't handle it in Review view, you have to switch back to Main view. Ugh.

Furthermore, despite how "feature-filled" it is, it lacks very basic functionality available in all other Git clients, such as simply opening a file in your default text editor from the right-click menu.

SmartGit is definitely the fastest, safer and easiest to use git UI, it can save me time and I feel confident that the job is done.

It has all the functions you ever stumble upon -even exotic ones- and the support is awesome.

Simple GUI with a ton of functions!

I tried a lot different git (and other) GUIs in my long developer's life. SmartGit is hands down the most complete. Other's may be simpler, but this doesn't come from a better structure, instead they are simply limited in their possibilities. At some point you will miss something and find that smartGit does it very well. On top of that, smartGit does all this very logically. E.g. drag and drop works as expected for cherry-picking or rebasing (at least if you think about it, because sometimes you might want something that is wrong when considering all the possibilities).