BTW, my go-to Git front-end is Atlassian's SourceTree. Of all the free
Git front-end software I had tried, it was the one that I felt most
comfortable with, back when I was new to Git myself. All others seemed
confusing and non-intuitive, while this one bridged the knowledge gap
reasonably well for me.

Maybe that's because it didn't orginate in the Git world, but in the
Mercurial world (or so I conjecture; Atlassian is the company behind
Bitbucket, which started out as a Mercurial hosting site before getting
extended to also support Git repos later; SourceTree also supports Hg).

Since I had used TortoiseSVN earlier and was quite happy with it, and
also had experimented with TortoiseHg at some point, I guess TortoiseGit
was also among the tools I tried - but didn't quite get comfy with. I
suspect Explorer extensions - which work great for centralized version
control - don't really lend themselves to the workflow of distributed
version control like Hg or Git.


Another cornerstone of my development / version control workflow is
BeyondCompare, which is a great diff tool. It's a commercial product,
but totally worth its price ($30-$60 depending on edition).

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