What is your preferred version control software and what additional features do you wish it had?

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  • difftastic

    a structural diff that understands syntax 🟥🟩

    • There are syntax-aware diff tools that go some way to solving this: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic

  • Gittyup

    Understand your Git history!

    • As to which git client to use, I highly recommend Tower -- if you want a free option then Gittyup is pretty good.

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  • tig

    Text-mode interface for git

    • I'm normally a CLI git (and tig) user.

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