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Show HN: Disco – Easy GitHub Browsing

#1

Post by cjwoodward » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 5:54 AM UTC

Disco is tiny app I built over the weekend to try and make browsing git better.

Inspired heavily by Tower, it also adds pull request integration and is run in the browser. It's only for public repositories.

Checkout:

http://disco.88cartell.com/#/rails/rails

http://disco.88cartell.com/#/emberjs/ember.js

http://disco.88cartell.com/#/angular/angular.js

Re: Show HN: Disco – Easy GitHub Browsing

#2

Post by shk » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 6:41 AM UTC

I like the interface. Couple things, * add browsing by arrow keys (down for going to next commit etc.) * Clicking on the modified file took me to github, I expected it to drop down like clicking on the black arrow. Better provide a separate link to take the user to github imo.

Re: Show HN: Disco – Easy GitHub Browsing

#3

Post by tilt » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 6:49 AM UTC

Clickables

http://disco.88cartell.com/#/rails/rails

http://disco.88cartell.com/#/emberjs/ember.js

http://disco.88cartell.com/#/angular/angular.js

Re: Show HN: Disco – Easy GitHub Browsing

#4

Post by imslavko » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 7:08 AM UTC

Looks like you are fetching only first 25 branches or so? The project I work on has a lot of unmerged branches (some of them are old experiments nobody deletes) and `master` is not even in the list :)

Re: Show HN: Disco – Easy GitHub Browsing

#5

Post by stefanooldeman » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 7:20 AM UTC

just fyi, there is an open source projects called disco: https://github.com/discoproject/disco/ http://disco.88cartell.com/#/discoproject/disco

Re: Show HN: Disco – Easy GitHub Browsing

#6

Post by cvan » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 7:44 AM UTC

Nice concept :) Agree with shk re: keyboard navigation. Also, images don't seem to be working in diffs.

Re: Show HN: Disco – Easy GitHub Browsing

#7

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 7:46 AM UTC

stefanooldeman wrote: post #5

just fyi, there is an open source projects called disco: https://github.com/discoproject/disco/ http://disco.88cartell.com/#/discoproject/disco

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Re: Show HN: Disco – Easy GitHub Browsing

#8

Post by thejosh » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 8:01 AM UTC

Can see the inspiration from the git gui clients (you said Tower, which is probably the same as git-cola), which is fantastic.

This looks great.

edit.

If there is no master, and only one branch, is it possible to go to that branch?

Is it also possible to hide merges?

Is it also opensource?

Re: Show HN: Disco – Easy GitHub Browsing

#9

Post by cjwoodward » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 8:34 AM UTC

thejosh wrote: post #8

Can see the inspiration from the git gui clients (you said Tower, which is probably the same as git-cola), which is fantastic. This looks great. edit. If there is no master, and only one branch, is it possible to go to that branch? Is it also possible to hide merges? Is it also opensource?

Hi, it is open source.

https://github.com/carlwoodward/disco

Re: Show HN: Disco – Easy GitHub Browsing

#10

Post by IbJacked » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 9:45 AM UTC

It'd be cool if it could store the repo's files in localstorage so I could load it up before I get on a plane, or if I'm saving battery life by disabling the radios. Perhaps a totally different use case than your target audience, I don't know.

There's an iOS App named NapCat that will pull down repos so you can browse the code at your leisure. Doesn't let you view commits and the file diffs, like you can with Disco.

In my mind: Disco for keeping up with what's happening and what files they happened to; NapCat for reading source for those times when the pleasure of a little light reading is in order :)