GitHub Desktop

Name: GitHub Desktop
Availability: InStock
Author: GitHub Inc (Microsoft)

Simple collaboration from your desktop

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Overview

What GitHub Desktop does

GitHub Desktop is a seamless way to contribute to projects on GitHub and GitHub Enterprise. It simplifies development workflow by providing a visual interface for Git operations, making it accessible to developers of all skill levels.

What people use it for

Git repository management
Open source contributions
Code collaboration
Version control
Team development

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about GitHub Desktop.

Available for Windows and macOS only, with no Linux build

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Pricing

What GitHub Desktop costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Free

Git repository management
GitHub integration
Visual diff tools
Branch management
Pull request creation
Issue tracking

Capabilities

Features

Visual Git interface
Visual Git interface capability
GitHub integration
GitHub integration capability
Branch management
Branch management capability
Pull request workflow
Pull request workflow capability
Commit history
Commit history capability
Merge conflict resolution
Merge conflict resolution capability
Repository cloning
Repository cloning capability
Collaboration tools
Collaboration tools capability
GitHub
Integration with GitHub
GitHub Enterprise
Integration with GitHub Enterprise
Visual Studio Code
Integration with Visual Studio Code
Text editors
Integration with Text editors

Behind it

Who makes GitHub Desktop

Company: GitHub Inc (Microsoft)
Based in: San Francisco, CA, USA

Timeline

GitHub Desktop over time

Launch2017-09-19
GitHub Desktop 1.0 released
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Milestone2017-05-01
GitHub Desktop rebuilt on Electron
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Launch2011-06-22
GitHub for Mac announced
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