Users can also subscribe to the GitKraken YouTube channel to access our always expanding library of Git educational videos and tutorials for using GitKraken with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps,and more, for free. That is also where we keep our fan-favorite release notes.
The GitKraken support site offers a whole toolbox of tips, technical documentation, and product videos and materials that highlight popular features. Teams need a way to get everyone as productive as possible, as soon as possible. The learning curve of Git is steep in general, especially when the UI is a blank terminal. Getting a new team member up to speed is always a challenge. Onboarding & Git Training Materials GitKraken ✅ | TortoiseGit ❌ As the rest of the Windows designs have evolved, this retro look lends to the overall clunkiness of using the tool. Unfortunately, their UI reflects the time period when it was first encoded, the Windows ME era. At that time, the decision to create a Windows-only tool that integrated directly into the Windows shell interface was very clever. An era when Linux was in its infancy, with a stable desktop distribution, like Ubuntu, still a few years in the future and when MacOS amounted to only about 3 percent of the market. TortoiseGit came about in an era when Windows was the de facto operating system developers were using.
The other major upside is it is completely free to use, though that comes with some downsides that we will cover later on. The biggest benefit is the community has internationalized the UI into 34 languages, with 14 of those at 80% or more translated. This has some upsides but comes with a few caveats. TortoiseGit is an open source project, not a commercial product. TortoiseGit – An open source project from an earlier time.