Features

The key features that make NiceGit so, well, nice!

The Problem

Source control is powerful, but for most teams it’s painful.

Traditional Git tools are packed with commands, jargon, and complexity that slow people down. On the other hand, cloud drives like Dropbox or Google Drive are simple, but they’re unreliable leaving teams exposed to duplication, overwrites, and lost work.

The result? Wasted hours, frustrating merge conflicts, and projects that feel harder to manage than they should.

Why NiceGit

NiceGit brings the best of both worlds: the reliability of Git with the simplicity of a one-button workflow.

It’s designed for teams who want to focus on their work, not on wrangling their tools. And because NiceGit works with all the major hosting providers — GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket — your team doesn’t have to change where your projects live. You simply make them easier to manage, without giving up the integrations you already rely on.

Features

One-Button Sync

At it’s purest, source control is a way for teams to synchronise projects so that everyone sees the same shared files. NiceGit’s unique One Button Sync makes this as simple as it sounds. Whenever you’re ready, click the button to share your work with your team mates, and see their latest changes. Simple.

By prioritising simplicity, NiceGit handles the complexity of other source control tools behind the scenes. No more Pulling, Pushing, Fetching, Merging (or was it rebasing?), One-Button Sync works just as you’d expcect it would.

Real-time Team Updates

NiceGit’s famililar feed view shows you what’s happening in your team, as it happens. As soon as someone starts working on a file, or finishes working on a feature, you’ll see it all.

Common problems such as duplication of work, or two people working on the same file at the same time are gone at a stroke. Whether your team is remote or in-person, you’ll know who’s storming through the backlog, and who might need support.

File Locking

One of the most common issues with working on shared files is muliple people trying to change the same file at the same time. In traditional source control systems this can result in the dreaded Merge Conflict. Even shared drives such as Dropbox and Google Drive experience this issue. The result is lost time and lost work as someone needs to figure out how to combine everyones changes.

NiceGit solves this problem through our automated file locking system. As soon as one person starts working on a file, the rest of the team is notified and the file is ‘locked’, preventing them from making changes. The file is automatically unlocked as soon as it is safe to work on. Most of the time you’ll never even notice it’s happening!

All the power of Git, none of the complexity

NiceGit projects are standard Git repositories. This makes it easy to work with existing projects and colleagues using traditional Git tools. If you or your team already has a Git repository, setting up NiceGit takes just a few seconds. Simply open the repository and NiceGit will do its thing!

NiceGit also works wth all of the major hosting providers, including GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket. Third-party integrations such as Pull Requests, Continuous Integration and compliance features such as Branch Protection all just work. If you’d like to talk to us about other hosts or features, please just drop us a line.