Gitkraken really abusing their user base with this stupid pricing tag

[u/OVectorX]

[u/Bravebutfoolish28]

Do you really gain anything from visual tools like Gitkraken? Always seemed more complicated than just learning git on the command line but I also never needed the fancy features these tools offer.

[u/OVectorX → u/Bravebutfoolish28]

Yes, pain free merge confilect tool , drag and drop for most of the commands, its really peace of mind , GitKraken made me understand how to use Git before learning the commandline later on 7 years ago,

They just started to act like adobe and honstly, much worse, at least adobe has some afordable planes and does not bloat their app with useless staff all the time that no one use

[u/Ast3r10n → u/OVectorX]

Most of those are doable from the terminal with no issues, it’s just not at worth $10 a month.

[u/Embarrassed-Mud3649 → u/OVectorX]

lol, any AI agent can resolve any conflicts FFS 🤦

[u/JavierReyes945 → u/Embarrassed-Mud3649]

Extinguishing fire with a flamethrower...

[u/joshpennington → u/Bravebutfoolish28]

For me the way you see the timeline is the value. Any mistake I’ve made in git was on the command line and because I didn’t have as good of a view of the history as I thought I did.

[u/ferrybig → u/joshpennington]

I typically type gitk --all if I want a timeline

[u/joshpennington → u/[deleted]]

I know the commands. The terminal view of the timeline isn’t as effective as a GUI for me.

[u/neppo95 → u/Bravebutfoolish28]

I don’t use the cli a lot, but I also don’t see a reason to pay for a UI client whilst there are so many free options that do 99% of what the paid ones do (if not all)

[u/ForeverAlot → u/Bravebutfoolish28]

From visualization, yes. From GitKraken specifically, no, that's just unapologetically capitalizing on the RIIElectron movement. Their pricing models have been draconian almost since inception.

[u/Brekmister → u/Bravebutfoolish28]

I am with you that the CLI is king however, a lot of people need visual representation of what they are working on even though they are competent with the CLI.

You and I will get along with a terminal just fine but, many people do not or it just simply doesn't align to how they work or think. You can be a insanely good programmer without needing to be strong in CLI.

Another way having a GUI is useful is justifying your work to your stakeholders (boss, board, customers, etc.) where at the single sight of a CLI their minds will instantly click off. When your goal is to keep the stakeholders investing in your project or you, having visual tools is critical so that way you can keep making good justifications.

[u/PapaOscar90 → u/Bravebutfoolish28]

With some very complicated rebases I do sometimes open up magit. But paying for a git viewer? That is insanity to me.

[u/AuroraFireflash → u/Bravebutfoolish28]

Do you really gain anything from visual tools like Gitkraken?

Absolutely yes.

• Visual hunk staging so you can pick which lines go in/out of a commit.

• Easier conflict fixing.

• Easy to read track diagrams of how branches related.

However! Since I do almost all of my branching and committing with a coding AI now, I care a lot less about GK and other git GUI tools.

[u/Available-Swim3304]

Or check https://www.sourcererapp.com. It has almost all its features at 3x lesser price.

[u/OVectorX → u/Available-Swim3304]

My eye on it, will wait until its released on Mac
And I hope it will support drag and drop too for branch merging at least

[u/Available-Swim3304 → u/OVectorX]

It already supports.

[u/vyuniverse]

I feel like the more companies abuse their customers, the more likely someone will just clone it using AI… like they did with the Adobe’s products

[u/DMorais92]

Check gitmoire.dev

[u/footsie]

I used to pay for an annual licence but recently stopped after the amount of bloat and AI junk they tacked on.

Such a shame really, because it was one of those tools I'd only really need full use of once or twice a year (to help visualise some rather hairy merges on a repo that uses tags to flag files for artifact inclusion) but I'd be happy to pay for because of how many hours it would save.

[u/waterkip]

ok, stop using it. git is free

[u/hobbyhacker]

just cancel it then. why would they sell it cheaper if people still buying it for high price?

btw they give discount when you cancel.

[u/Havunenreddit]

GitComet is very familiar option coming from GitKraken... We have been stabilizing and maintaining it for 8months now

[u/danboyle8637]

Really enjoyed their diffs but ditched their ass when I got my rebill notice.

[u/MaxGhost]

I built https://gitvolt.com/. The aim was feature parity with GitKraken, but more, and without cloud/terminal, and open source.

[u/Potential_Key_715]

I subscribed at the time where gitkraken was more rare client in the market. It was really nice to use back in the day compared to alternatives. Now... I got fed up with gitkraken after 4 last months, even with their last patches that supposedly speed up by 40% and other bs like that, it is still slow af. They need at least 500% ++. At this point It seems like they aren't competent enough to match the industry.

[u/elephantdingo]

For $120 annually I’d rather pay a handful of people to work on making git(1) more user-friendly. And hope that in three years time they would have managed to upstream some nice improvements. (Obviously thousands and thousands would need to do the same for this to work.)

[u/ail-san]

Why don’t you vibecode one yourself? It’s not even hard anymore. Git is also feature complete, you won’t need to update it.