Looking for a GitHub Desktop alternative? What to check first
GitHub Desktop is a great first Git client, and its simplicity is the point: until you need to see a real commit graph, rebase interactively, or juggle a dozen repos. Then the search for an alternative starts.
Check the history view
GitHub Desktop shows a flat list; parallel branches and merge structure are invisible. If you ever ask "what actually happened here?", you want a client that draws the graph.
Check the advanced operations
Interactive rebase, cherry-pick of multiple commits, squash, patch export, reflog access: the operations that separate a Git viewer from a Git client.
Check the price of "pro" features
Several popular alternatives paywall exactly the features you switched for. Open-source clients keep the whole feature set free, and you can read the code.
How Gitcito does this for you
Gitcito is free and open source with no paid tier: full commit graph, interactive rebase, multi-commit operations, repo groups, PR creation and review on GitHub, inline CI status, and a ⌘K palette. On macOS, Windows and Linux.
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