
Vim lovers will adore the vim plugin Fugitive, whereas Emacs users will gravitate to Magit. You may prefer coding using a text-based Git client. GitAhead is no longer under active development, but has been forked (see Gittyup). It features a fast native interface designed to help you understand and manage your source code history. GitAhead is a graphical, cross-platform Qt-based Git client. Gittyup is a continuation of the GitAhead client. Gittyup is a graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history. Git Extensions runs on multiple platforms (including Linux) using Mono. It implements classic GIT by using a GUI (Graphical user interface), basically driven by a set of dedicated commands, hence maintains the version control system intuitively. Git Extensions is a toolkit aimed at making working with Git more intuitive. What are the best free and open source alternatives?
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While Sourcetree is a free download it’s proprietary software and not available for Linux. Sourcetree is a Git client that simplifies how you interact with your Git repositories so you can focus on coding.

This series looks at free and open source alternatives to Atlassian’s products.

But their main range of software is proprietary. And their GitHub repositories hold lots of open source code.

Many of their programs use a number of open source components.
