![]() ![]() the original project owner should contacted and only if that person does not respond after some time can the banner go up.This should of course be subject to some basic rules. The banner could look something like this: GitHub could have a way for active forks to be linked in a banner at the top of abandoned projects. If you google for “gitx active fork” the top hit is a stackoverflow page that gives you wrong information and that is closed because of some silly rule. If you click on the number of forks in the top right corner on GitHub and then click the “network” tab you can, with a little digging, find that there is an active fork at but that doesn’t seem to show up on google or any of the pages you’re likely to find there. …followed by a lot of junk hits pretty much.Project page for an abandoned fork (updated 2014).The original homepage to the now abandoned project (updated 2009).As of now if you google “gitx” the top hits are: GitX is a nice git desktop client for macOS, but the original repository is abandoned. I believe this is a problem that can be fixed, or at least improved upon significantly. Sometimes there is an active fork but it can be extremely hard to find, even if you spend the time to go looking. I plan to write a bit more about tooling in the future, so hopefully I can feature it then.I think we’ve all seen abandoned projects that have multiple good pull requests. It has all the features I could think of off the top of my head. Assuming I can remember to use it regularly, and it provides the same features I rely on GitX for, Fork is the strongest contender. I doubt GitX is going to fall out of regular usage (muscle memory, inertia), but I would love to switch to a new, actively developed too. It has similar (to GitX) keyboard shortcuts and a large dedicated stage/commit area. I can launch it from a repository directory on the command line. However my first impressions is very positive. This is the "new" graphical tool I mentioned above, so I don't have much experience with it. It feels fresh, stable and polished, and the maintainers are actively developing it. It doesn't appear to be open-source software, but it is cross-platform (macOS and Windows). Unlike Xit Fork doesn't claim any lineage to GitX, though it obviously has taken significant design inspiration from it. Forkįork ( also?) is another tool similar to GitX. I'll take another look after they are confident to bring Xit out of beta. The developers consolidated GitX's stage/commit area into the main area, and they removed the familiar keyboard shortcuts. I am certainly going to keep an eye on it, but as the project is in beta, I haven't felt much need to switch yet. I downloaded it to check it out a while ago, and its GitX heritage is pretty obvious. It is currently being actively, though slowly, developed. I recommend the latter: brew cask install gitx # GitX GitX-dev has a few more features over the original, but it too is abandoned.īoth GitX and GitX-dev are available via Homebrew. Several forks have come and gone since then, and they all seem to be abandoned too. ![]() It was originally developed by Pieter de Bie ( project website), but he hasn't updated it over a decade. However I have some issues, the first being a complete project abandonment. It works so well, and I almost never have to think about it. At work I switch among several repos at once, and GitX handles a window for each of them with ease. I love it's (mostly) simple interface and that it almost never crashes. GitX is simple to use and is mostly focused on reading git repository, though it does facilitate creating new commits. I have been using GitX since around the time I purchased my MacBook in mid-2012. Last night a friend showed me a new one (below), so I thought I would list my favorites in this space. Although I believe developers should learn git on the command line, graphical tools can be useful, especially for inspecting history. ![]()
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