From the course: Version Control for Everyone

Installing a visual Git app - GitHub Tutorial

From the course: Version Control for Everyone

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Installing a visual Git app

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- [Instructor] In this course we're going to stay off the command line using one of the many great options for version control with Git. In this video we're going to look at some of the options for many platforms. Choosing a version control application can be like choosing a meal. What one person likes, someone else might not care for. But there are many available to try. We're going to start off with Sublime Merge, which is free to download and free to use for basically as long as you want. It's available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. When you go to the homepage there's a nice friendly button for downloading the version for the platform you're currently on. And if you want to get any of the other builds for other platforms, there's a link to do that. Another very popular options is GitKraken. This one requires that you have a GitKraken account to use the app, but it is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux as well. Another popular option is GitHub Desktop, which you can use to manage your Git projects regardless of whether you use GitHub itself. It's available direct from GitHubb for macOS or Windows, but there are also some pre-built binaries for lots of different Linux distributions available here from Shiftkey. My favorite option that I use every day is only available for Mac and Windows, which is why I'm covering it a little later, it's called Fork. I find that it has just the right balance of a nice user interface with all the features that I use, because I've been using version control for a pretty long time. And then finally, there's Git Tower, which is a very popular commercial option that's available for macOS or Windows. Most of these options are free or they have very nice long trials. So you can try all these different options again. So if one doesn't stick, you can try some of the other ones. These are several of the best options for a graphical Git interface. I haven't covered everything that's out there, but I've used all of these, and think they should give you a good start.

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