I've been using Syntevo SmartGit now almost every day since February 2011 to manage the git workflow for our free, cross-platform, and open source ArchiMate Modeller tool "Archi" developed at the Institute for Educational Cybernetics in Bolton University, UK. If it wasn't for the ease of use and cross-platform availability of SmartGit I don't think I would have made the transition from legacy SCM systems to Git. I just want to say thank-you for a fantastic product. I've tried nearly all other Git tools and SmartGit beats them all hands-down, even the in-built eGit tooling in Eclipse, and I'm an Eclipse developer!
As our work is non-commercial and open source we are able to use the free license of SmartGit for which I thank you.
SmartGit is a really clean and polished Git client. The application is written in java and you can even use it as an Svn client if you want to. It makes use of a nice project management view, which allows you to see all the branches I have for my project in one spot. Also the graphing and log is really nice and you don’t have to deal with annoying SHA identifiers ... Read the full blog posting here.
I'm Project leader in our Universities development team for a software-development class in Germany. I've tested absolutely every Git frontend and the console. But none made our workflow so nice as SmartGit. Thanks SmartGit, we achieved our goal earlier and flowless as butter. Thank you for that great product again!
I just wanted to say "Thank you!" and "Great Job" to the interface designers and software engineers who have worked on SmartGit! I've only been using SmartGit actively on a current project for about a week, and I've already been able to create a branch and then merge it back into the Head version on my very first attempt!!
This makes branching feel quite a bit easier than svn... thank you!
I have been using SmartSVN for a little over three years now. I have just started to experiment with Git (downloaded SmartGit today). Looks very interesting. Even though I'm old enough to have done many years of work with the command line, I am now too attached to a nice GUI. I probably wouldn't have looked at Git if you hadn't provided SmartGit.