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videlov

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About videlov

email: kiril@gitbutler.com twitter: @krlvi founder: https://gitbutler.com

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    Comment #48847192

    I was interested in answering this question so I built a benchmark comparing git, jj and gitbutler in agentic context https://vcbench.dev/ Disclaimer - I am a co-founder of GitButl…

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    Comment #48487491

    Surprised to see they kept Tauri. In our experience of using Tauri, it has been a significant source of compatibility and performance issues related to it's use of WebKit and WebKi…

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    Comment #47722554

    We will remove the hook constraint as soon as we complete this https://github.com/gitbutlerapp/gitbutler/issues/11866 For the Claude question, the CLI ships a skill, set it up with…

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    Comment #46034402

    The app has a built-in mechanism for going back in time (an operations log) which can be used for undoing situations that should not arise in the first place. It can be accessed vi…

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    Comment #46031380

    You are right - it is something we did intentionally, but I would like to learn more from your use case - what is the reason to prefer isolation of changes? Is it the case that you…

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    Comment #46031360

    (co-founder of gb here) I am really sorry for the frustration - the app should do better and we will do better. In the past few months we have been putting a very deliberate effort…

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    Comment #46031327

    (co-founder of GitButler here) We chose not to use separate git worktrees under the hood for this functionality. Let me try to break down why, maybe there's an opportunity for me t…

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    Comment #43138510

    > excludesfile = ~/.gitignore It has happened to me in the past to wonder why certain files/folders are ignored by git, only to realise that I had a global git ignore for the parti…

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    Comment #42517638

    I have found the following community site for generating Ghostty config quite helpful https://ghostty.zerebos.com/

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    Comment #41886637

    Martin (the jj creator) recently gave a talk at the Git Merge 2024 conference: https://youtu.be/LV0JzI8IcCY?si=Pun7WJp4ZWvHq-3G

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    Comment #39563374

    GitButler | Senior Engineer | Full-time | Onsite Berlin We are a small team of 9 people who love Git, building new functionality on top of the Git format (branching, code review & …

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    Comment #39486034

    We have been using Tauri for about a year (a desktop app) and I am very happy with our choice. What I initially found attractive was the smaller binary sizes. Over time I have come…

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    Comment #39359801

    I think you are right that our documentation does not sufficiently communicate what the application does especially in various corner cases. For my own sake, allow me to articulate…

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    Comment #39359401

    This limitation stems from the fact that GB introduces an additional dimension of versioning on top of Git. One way of thinking of what it does with virtual branches is like "multi…

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    Comment #39358017

    I think there may be a misunderstanding here. While the tool does something unorthodox locally, the output that it generates is plan Git trees that do represent a consistent snapsh…

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    Comment #39357563

    We used an app called Screen Studio.

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    Comment #38999845

    This article resonated with me be because I have also thought of branches as something ephemeral, with the ultimate goal of packaging and delivering a change to "prod". Perhaps thi…

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    Comment #38743105

    Currently GitButler only generates commit messages in this way (with some config options for style e.g. semantic commits). With that said, generating PR descriptions is something I…

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    Thank you for sharing this project! I have been searching for something like this for some time