Are there any good graphical Git and Hg/Mercurial clients on Mac OS X?

Question

I\'m searching for compelling Git and Mercurial clients on Mac OS X. The most clients I\'ve found so far were less compelling as I expected. Some of the clients are programmed e

Answer 1

It's commercial but I use Araxis Merge. I've used it on Windows, there's a very similar clone called Meld for Linux which I've used for years and the Mac version is very solid too.

It's pretty handy to have the same (or very nearly the same) too on all three platforms.

I'm more familiar with Mercurial than git so I'm very comfortable recommending it with Hg. As an aside, I'm guessing that you know how the hg extdiff command works but if not post a comment.

Answer 2

I started a 21-day trial of SourceTree a couple of days ago (first public release was October 26th). I already prefer it to the other three well-known Mac OS GUIs for Mercurial, but I'm new to Mercurial and therefore not a power user. It most closely resembles Murky. It was very easy to get it up and running and its balance between features and simplicity suits my tastes very well.

I have no association with the developer other than being very happy with how quickly he's been responding to the issues I've raised.

http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/home

Answer 3

I just thought I'd mention that SourceTree is a Mac OS X client for both Mercurial and Git, in one tool. I wasn't sure if you were looking for that, or just mentioned both because you hadn't decided which to use yet; personally as an open source developer / user, having both available in one tool is very useful to me (that's why I wrote it :))

Answer 4

Git

Colleague has had good experiences with GitBox.

SmartGit wins on windows from what i have seen, nothing else is comparable. It may be a bit strange at first sometimes. (i.e. FETCH is not directly available, instead you have to PULL and choose in the popup window not to merge directly. Once you know that it is no problem.) It also has a nice graphical log viewer.

SmartGit is multiplatform, so it will work everywhere quite the same, and thus would be my recommendation in a multi-OS environment.

hg

Sorry, no experience on mac with it.

Answer 5

Honestly, there's nothing with the polish of Versions or Cornerstone for git, Mercurial or Bazaar yet. Maybe someone will change that in the future, but for right now if you want a graphical client you'll have to settle for something like GitX or Murky.

Answer 6

http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/index.html IS AWESOME!!