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Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

#1

Post by jskinner » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 7:36 AM UTC

Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text
sublimemerge.com

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

#2

Post by jskinner » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 7:37 AM UTC

Hi HN - Jon Skinner here, I made Sublime Text and Sublime Merge, alongside the rest of the Sublime HQ programming team - Will, Dylan and Benjamin. Let me know if you have any questions!

Edit: there's also the announcement blog post, at https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-merge

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

#3

Post by adonese » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 7:51 AM UTC

jskinner wrote: post #2

Hi HN - Jon Skinner here, I made Sublime Text and Sublime Merge, alongside the rest of the Sublime HQ programming team - Will, Dylan and Benjamin. Let me know if you have any questions! Edit: there's also the announcement blog post, at https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-merge

I think i'll like this tool a LOT!

Thanks for the great work! No single text editor in my life i love as much as sublime!

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

#4

Post by jazzyjackson » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 7:51 AM UTC

jskinner wrote: post #2

Hi HN - Jon Skinner here, I made Sublime Text and Sublime Merge, alongside the rest of the Sublime HQ programming team - Will, Dylan and Benjamin. Let me know if you have any questions! Edit: there's also the announcement blog post, at https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-merge

Allo, looking forward to trying it. One question for you, could you compare it to other standalone git merge options? What don't the competitors do that you do?

But PS, you have a broken link on the /download page

  purchased

Of course that leading slash will break things -- you could drop the whole `/https:` too.

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

#5

Post by _hao » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:03 AM UTC

How does it compare against GitKraken?

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

#6

Post by CityWanderer » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:03 AM UTC

Super excited by a three-way merge tool, it's the thing I find most lacking in Atom and one of the great things about IntelliJ.

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

#7

Post by jskinner » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:09 AM UTC

jazzyjackson wrote: post #4

jskinner wrote: post #2

Hi HN - Jon Skinner here, I made Sublime Text and Sublime Merge, alongside the rest of the Sublime HQ programming team - Will, Dylan and Benjamin. Let me know if you have any questions! Edit: there's also the announcement blog post, at https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-merge

Allo, looking forward to trying it. One question for you, could you compare it to other standalone git merge options? What don't the competitors do that you do? But PS, you have a broken link on the /download page purchased Of course that leading slash will break things -- you could drop the whole `/https:` too.

Sublime Merge is a Git client, and I'd list the main advantages over the alternatives as performance, and UI polish in general.

For example, when you stage a file in Sublime Merge, we internally predict the resulting change to the repository, so the changes are reflected in the UI immediately, while the operation is actually happening asynchronously. In contrast, other Git clients can take seconds before being able to stage a second file.

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

#8

Post by saagarjha » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:10 AM UTC

_hao wrote: post #5

How does it compare against GitKraken?

Well, for one, GitKraken is Electron while the Sublime tools are native C++. So I’d expect faster performance.

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

#9

Post by coldtea » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:10 AM UTC

jskinner wrote: post #2

Hi HN - Jon Skinner here, I made Sublime Text and Sublime Merge, alongside the rest of the Sublime HQ programming team - Will, Dylan and Benjamin. Let me know if you have any questions! Edit: there's also the announcement blog post, at https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-merge

Totally appreciate your ST work Jon (main driver for 6+ years, used Vim before for 15+ years). Will definitely try Merge.

Does it offer any integration with Sublime itself (e.g. if someone has a license for both)?

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

#10

Post by indentit » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:11 AM UTC

Wow, Sublime Merge is so much smoother than GitKraken, great job! I love that it takes everything we know and like about ST and applies it to Git.

It even seamlessly finds my Sublime Text packages, and uses the syntax definitions installed there for highlighting - no duplicate/double configuration required.