r/git is a subreddit with 116k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses git, looking, tool, github, and annoying, and they frequently recommend/review git gui.
Popular Themes in r/git
#1
Advice Requests
: "We got tired of our students panicking at merge conflicts so we built a free 20-lesson Git course"
9 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Given that lately Microsoft has been kind of wrecking GitHub, is it a good strategy to migrate my repositories over to GitLab and just get rid of my GitHub account?"
6 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "I need to know when my patches are released, so I built a tool for it"
6 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "GitHub has a serious fake engagement problem and I wanted to see how visible it actually is through the public API, its worse than I thought after I went down that rabbit hole..."
1 post
#5
Ideas
: "I am building a tool that writes your 'building in public' posts from your git commits. Would you use it?"
1 post
#6
Opportunities
: "How to improve our deployment process?"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/git
#1
Git
: "Beginner keeps finding more uses for Git"
62 posts
#2
Looking
39 posts
#3
Tool
38 posts
#4
Github
: "need advice rewriting history + migrating bitbucket repo to Github"
17 posts
#5
Annoying
9 posts
#6
Struggling
8 posts
#7
Commit
3 posts
#8
Git Hub
: "I built a simulator that compares GitHub flow, Git flow, and trunk-based development"
3 posts
#9
Git Gui
: "I built an open-source Git Gui for Linux — it's called GitGud"
2 posts
#10
Git Diff Tool
: "Trying to set up an external Git Diff Tool"
2 posts
Products Discussed in r/git
Git Gui
110 reviews
#1
Fork
4.5★ from 13 reviews
#2
Magit
5.0★ from 11 reviews
#3
Git Extensions
4.4★ from 9 reviews
Flair Used in r/git
#1
support
: "should i not be doing this and is git really for my use cage?"
21 posts
#2
tutorial
: "We got tired of our students panicking at merge conflicts so we built a free 20-lesson Git course"
7 posts
#3
github only
: "GitHub has a serious fake engagement problem and I wanted to see how visible it actually is through the public API, its worse than I thought after I went down that rabbit hole..."
6 posts
#4
survey
: "Strategies for keeping long-lived feature branches up to date with master?"
3 posts
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Yearly
+28k members(32.2%)
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Last updated: July 21, 2026