#Zed is easily my favorite #git client I’ve used since Tower on macOS a decade ago

@thornbill Have you used GitKraken?

If so, how would you say it compares?

@tgpo @thornbill what do you think of GitKraken. Used it many years ago on Windows before moving to Fork (which is awesome on Win/Mac btw). But they don’t support Linux yet, so need to find an alternative now.

@neilb @thornbill I've been using GitKraken for many years. It's my goto client. Every Roku change I've made, reviewed, merged, etc. has been done in it.

I also used it professionally for many years and got my teams to use it as it made our work a bit easier.

The biggest thing is I don't want any AI crap, so I disable it and forget it even exists. I can write my own commit summaries thank you very much.

@tgpo @neilb I tried GitKraken a few times and hated it but that’s been many years ago. I just don’t need all the extra stuff it tried to do. I’ve just been using the CLI mainly but have never been happy with the staging process. Zed solves that for me in a really elegant way. It might be too minimal for you if you are used to GitKracken though.

@thornbill @neilb 🤘

Yeah, I'm a visual processor, so a GUI is a must have for me.

@thornbill Zed's git client came late and then it just could what the bad git integration of VSCode could with an interface that is a little bit prettier. Is it better now?

I still constantly switch to JetBrains IDEs, even to IntelliJ community Edition just for git. I like the comparing diff more, and there I can filter commits in the history, mark commits to see the combined changes, mark 2 commits and squash them, change commit messages, etc.

zed doesn't even have a git history View, as far as I know. Also what I love with JetBrains IDEs is, that you can switch branches or pull from remote without needing to stash the changes. There is a git setting that allows that for every software, but most git clients don't use it.

@thornbill What do you love about the git integration of Zed?