ungit vs pre-commit by Yelp: What are the differences?

Developers describe ungit as "The easiest way to use git. On any platform. Anywhere". Clean and intuitive UI that makes it easy to understand git. On the other hand, pre-commit by Yelp is detailed as "A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks". If one of your developers doesn’t have node installed but modifies a JavaScript file, pre-commit automatically handles downloading and building node to run jshint without root. Pre-commit is a multi-language package manager for pre-commit hooks. You specify a list of hooks you want and pre-commit manages the installation and execution of any hook written in any language before every commit. pre-commit is specifically designed to not require root access.

ungit and pre-commit by Yelp can be categorized as "Git" tools.

Some of the features offered by ungit are:

• Runs on any platform that node.js & git supports.
• Web-based, meaning you can run it on your cloud/pure shell machine and use the ui from your browser (just browse to http://your-cloud-machine.com:8448).
• Works well with GitHub.

On the other hand, pre-commit by Yelp provides the following key features:

• node
• python
• ruby

ungit and pre-commit by Yelp are both open source tools. It seems that ungit with 8.39K GitHub stars and 543 forks on GitHub has more adoption than pre-commit by Yelp with 3.09K GitHub stars and 234 GitHub forks.