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TortoiseGit
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 13 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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TortoiseGit looks like TortoiseSVN but behaves differentlyUnreviewed
20112026- Similar-looking to TortoiseSVN but behaves differently, causing confusion2021-08-01
- Found it much less usable than TortoiseSVN for Git work2020-10-31
- Still carries UX hints inherited from TortoiseSVN, making it less intuitive2014-05-17
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 14 complaints
- Opens a separate window for every task, forcing multiple log windows to be open2025-11-11
- Comparing a file's older versions requires painful, non-intuitive menus and right-clicking2023-12-05
- Took three days to work out how to push, with misleading online guidance2021-08-13
- Similar-looking to TortoiseSVN but behaves differently, causing confusion2021-08-01
- Found it much less usable than TortoiseSVN for Git work2020-10-31
- Git's interface is confusing, and TortoiseGit can only partly hide it2020-10-31
- Viewing working directory diffs takes several clicks, with time-based actions hidden in context menus2019-07-24
- Hard to learn for newcomers; only functional if you already know git2016-10-10
- Still carries UX hints inherited from TortoiseSVN, making it less intuitive2014-05-17
- Hard to find the right action because command names are renamed2012-05-21
- GUI client lacks any way to interact with the staging area2012-01-09
- Cannot interact with the index in the GUI2011-07-19
- GUI is practically unusable compared to TortoiseHG2011-05-15
- Commit dialog shows a huge number of options, hiding Git's simplicity2011-03-10