Choosing your Git client

Git clients allows you to work with your repositories on your local machine. You will be able to commit and push data to your repositories and pull the data others have pushed. Although Git has been around for a while, it is still a new version control system, and there are not many good clients to choose from as for Subversion. Here are some of our recommendations:

For Mac

• Command line – download the git-osx-installer or read articles on how to get started
• Git Tower
• GitX
• GitBox

For Windows

• Command line – read articles on how to get started
• TortoiseGIT
• msysgit
• Git Extensions

Multi Platform

• SmartGit
• SourceTree

For Linux

• Giggle
• gitg

IDE Integration

• Egit – plug-in providing support for Git within the Eclipse IDE.
• Git Extensions also eatures plug-in for Visual Studio