Git Desktop Git Bash

You bring up Git Bash and Git CMD so I assume you're targeting Windows users?

When I'm on Windows I use command-line git from WSL or I shell into a different system which has the full toolchain.

I don't use the GUIs, though I've given them a go. It's not that I'm some kind of hipster, I genuinely find it more difficult to understand visual representations of things than a text description.

Also I script the crap out of everything :P

None of the above.

When I absolutely need to use it from Windows, I use it under WSL so that I actually have a complete environment and full access to both everything git itself can do as well as full functionality of a properly managed UNIX shell environment [ZSH in my case, but that's orthogonal to this].

Otherwise, I just open a terminal emulator and start using it directly.

I have some integration with my shell [displays the branch name, if there are changes or not, and if there's anything stashed or not for the repository I'm currently in] and my editor [displays branch name and whether the file I'm working on has changes relative to the branch], but those are honestly just convenience items that I don't even technically need.

In my experience, the GUI options don't really add much unless you don't have a complete understanding of how VCS works in general or have serious issues mapping mentally from the textual output to the actual DAG structures and the transformations on them that are performed by Git. Neither is the case for me though, so there's not really any benefit to me using a GUI.

Colour me contrary, but I generally don't like CLI and other command line things. I find GUI-based things much easier to track all the moving parts.

So, with that in mind, I use a few:

• Fork
• And the official GitHub Desktop app. It's really nice and clear for fairly high-level git things

I use the git command line interface combined with gitk [tk application to show the graph] and magit - Emacs interface to git. git add -p is so much easier with magit!

I mainly use Git Fork, it's simple and clean. But when I need to execute custom commands that you don't commonly find in Git Clients, I use Git Bash.

GitKraken, Github desktop and the CLI with custom bash alias and functions

Git that's integrated in my IDE, and occasionally git bash. It really depends, sometimes Sublime Merge.

I usually go with GitKraken when I am not using command line.

Some differences I found in StackoverFlow.com.