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Sometimes Eclipse source control integration bogs down performance.

In the latter case, simply ditch the Eclipse integration, and use a whole workspace (N projects) as a single source-control project, outside of Eclipse.

Eclipse assumes that one Eclipse project is one source control project, an assumption that is sometimes helpful and sometimes painful.

There are two annoyances I see regularly: The most common example for me is when using Eclipse on a large, complex system. Now I love a good IDE as much as anyone (I’ve urged and coached many developers to move from an editor to an IDE), but I don’t agree with the notion that source control must always be in the IDE. IDE-integrated source control can be very useful, but there are sometimes cases where non-integrated source control wins.

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It is almost as though for this group, multitasking does not exist, and any need to run more than one piece of software at the same time is a defect. I know people who swear by their IDE experience, and are aghast at the thought of any daily-use dev tool that is not integrated with their IDE. Five year ago I thought of that as a caveat but today, Java-based GUIs can be extremely attractive and fast, so I don’t see as a problem at all. SmartGit requires a Java runtime, implying that it is written in Java.

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I don’t know how SmartGit fits in with the Git licensing Git is licensed GPL (v2), so I assume (hope?) SmartGit has found some way to use it under the hood without linking to it in a way that would cause license trouble. It also appears to be quite feature-rich.

It appears to be more polished than the others, as is often the case with commercial products. Unlike the other tools listed here, SmartGit is a commercial product (from a German company), starting at around $70. Git Extensions is free open source software, and is under active development. From the screen shots, it appears to be feature-rich and complete. This Git GUI has a shell extension (like the Tortoise family) and also a plugin for Visual Studio. TortoiseGit is free open source software, and is under active development. If you like and use TortoiseSVN, you’ll probably find this worth a try.

This is an attempt to port TortoiseSVN to git, yielding TortoiseGit. Mike Rowe (a reader) helpfully suggested this msysgit tour, which is very helpful though a bit dated. That was a long time ago for me, but might be Right Now for people reading this post.

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I could have really used a video walkthrough of how to be productive with it, back when I was starting out. My biggest gripe with msysgit (and its GUI) is that I had to figure out how to use it effectively myself.

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There is even a portable (zero-install) version available. It is under active development, and keeps up with the upstream Git versions reasonably well. If you don’t know where to start, or if you want a Linux-like Git experience, start with msysgit and learn to use its tools. I don’t mind the ugly (I get my fix of stylish software over on my Mac…), and I find the features ample for most work. These tools are a bit ugly, but have good and useful functionality. Msysgit includes the same Tk-based GUI tools as Git on Linux: a commit tool and a repo-browse tool, plus a bit of shell integration to active the GUI by right-clicking in Windows Explorer, plus a new thing call git-cheetah, which appears to be heading toward Tortoise-style integration. It is based on MSYS, so it fits in the Windows ecosystem a bit better than the cygwin Git port. Msysgit is the main project which ships a Windows port of Git. There is also a very long list of Git tools on the main Git wiki but that page is just a list, without any other information. I can offer this list of choices, though, along with some thoughts about them. I use msysgit (and its included GUI) most often myself, but I don’t have a clear answer as to which is the “best” Git GUI for Windows. Since then I’ve switched to 75% Mac OSX, but I still use Git on Windows for a few projects, and I get a lot of questions about Git on Windows. I adopted Git as my primary source control tool a couple of years ago, when I was using Windows as my primary (90%) desktop OS.