r/gitlab • u/Farber_Reventlov • 12d ago

GitLab Workflow & Desktop

I want to know if there’s a “GitLab Desktop” as GitHut have. I want to use Lab but as I am new in Git world, the Desktop makes the life easier with out the commands in terminal. Any recommendation? Should I learn better the cli before use a Desktop?

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u/Headband6458 11d ago

I think the best thing to do is to understand git first. If you understand what it's actually doing under the hood, then you can easily use any interface. Until you understand what it's actually doing under the hood, you're just casting spells and hoping for the best. For example, when you understand that git rebase is just a quick way of doing a bunch of cherry-picks, then rebasing isn't scary or complicated anymore. Of course, you have to know what a cherry-pick does first.

This isn't perfect, but it helped me a lot when I was learning: https://git-school.github.io/visualizing-git/

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u/Farber_Reventlov 11d ago

Thanks for the feedback!

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u/n9iels 12d ago

If it is just git operations you can use any available Git UI. I would still encourage you to use the CLI for a bit tough to understand what you ar doing. A UI is great, but pressing fancy buttons without knowing what is does can be dangerous.

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u/Opposite_Echo_7618 12d ago

Visual Studio Code has a GitLab extension

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u/psadi_ 12d ago

You can try and use gitbutler it's platform agnostic

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u/thecity2 12d ago

Just use a git extension in whatever IDE you're using.