What's the advantage to SourceTree? aside from nicer ui. I wish it had the code review, commenting, issue tracking of the web app in a desktop application, all in one place. It's a pain to move constantly between the editor, CLI/SourceTree and Github web app for everyday tasks.
I don't even think that this new client supports anything but GitHub. Their previous Windows client didn't.
I'm using this new client against Bitbucket right now. Just added local repos that I had already cloned, and it's just following the .git/config like any good git client does.
Its a shame that a Linux version is not included. A significant volume of developers work on Linux. If doing a multi platform application, why exclude it?
Agreed. It's 2015. No excuse not to put out a Linux version. I thought those days are over. The fact that _Microsoft_ of all companies is releasing multiple developer tools on Linux these days should tell you all you need to know about this bone of contention. I'd have expected more from Github, to be honest, given Atom.
On my Ubuntu at the moment the big cross-platform packages I have are: .Net platform, Visual Studio Code, Spotify client, Skype client, Viber client, Chrome, Scrivener, …
It's rather embarrassing that github would consider it too difficult or too troublesome to release Linux builds. Very insulting towards a huge chunk of its user base. Regarding GUI, how do you initiate a pull request on the command line?
"Embarrassing"? "Insulting"? Aren't you taking this a little too personally? I mean, it's a software release for christs sake.
No. Github is built on git. Git was written by Linus Torvalds. You see where this is going? Oh, we'll build our tech on your side project but ignore the user base of your main project. Nice.
It's likely they felt it's not worth the time since most Linux users are using the CLI for everything else, and likely wouldn't be interested in a GUI. Personally I've never used the Github GUI and have no plans to, running the commands is fast and easy.
> It's likely they felt it's not worth the time This seems strange. Did they not use Electron or Atom Shell or whatever it's called to build Github Desktop? If so, then is it not relatively trivial to create a GNU/Linux (or at least non-OSX-centric Unix) tarball of all the Javascript or whatever? If not so, then why not?
Because Electron is heavy and clunky. It makes no sense for a simple wrapper around a tiny (less than 1MB) commandline tool to have memory and CPU requirements on par with those of an instance of Chromium with a javascript-laden page open in a tab.
That's just a further proof point that open-source is not a panacea: it sometimes gets in the way of running a business.
There would be no github without git.
Necessary but not sufficient. There would be no free GitHub repos for open source without the income from the closed source repos that pay for them. As usual, open source is subsidized by closed source.
It's rather embarrassing that github would consider it too difficult or too troublesome to release Linux builds. Very insulting towards a huge chunk of its user base. Regarding GUI, how do you initiate a pull request on the command line?
"Embarrassing"? "Insulting"? Aren't you taking this a little too personally? I mean, it's a software release for christs sake.
It demonstrates a lack of concern/acknowledgement of the diversity of its user base. Especially if they are going to be promoting this on the front page of their website and in my dashboard upon login, which presents me with the broadcast:
"GitHub Desktop is now available
The new GitHub Desktop is now available"
And then I click on it to install it, I feel marginalized and hence a little insulted, when discovering I can't.
In this day, there are a great variety of cross-platform gui toolkits (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_platform-independent_G...), that could have been used. It is embarrassing for such a large organisation with all sorts of users using all sorts of machines to not release cross-platform tools. It if was just someone's personal project, or if it was a company's specialized toolkit for their specific customer base, the lack of cross-platform tools is excusable.
While I find this initiative fantastic, it's a bit frustrating that Github, a company that lives on source code being open, does not publish the code of tools like this one.
It's rather embarrassing that github would consider it too difficult or too troublesome to release Linux builds. Very insulting towards a huge chunk of its user base. Regarding GUI, how do you initiate a pull request on the command line?
I'm sure most hardcore Linux users would consider using a GUI to use git would be embarrassing / insulting TBF. I mean git add, git commit, and git push/pull is 95% of what you'd do with git and it's not rocket science.
right. But it is a nice clean GUI, that handles the 95% percent without any fluff. The git program is very complicated, designed to handle large projects, and it does have a learning curve (especially to keep all the commands straight e.g. git branch -l, git branch -d, git checkout -b, git "reqeust-pull"???). When I was first learning git, I was a little overwhelmed at its variety of commands in the man, and would have preferred this GUI where I'm able to simply click on repos, click to create a branch, and click to create a pull request, to handle 95%+ of use cases. Even hardcore linux users like to use simple GUI tools, sometimes.
I'm a beginner here so sorry for if it's a stupid question. I work with GitFlow and the only things I use are commits and checkouts, but for what do you use Git? About which powerful features are you talking about, does anyone have a link with some more in depth informations?
Some features I use: Cherry-picking commits across branches. Merging branches. Rebases for forward-porting your work onto a new upstream. Bisects for determining which commit introduced a bug. Push/pull for sharing. Format-patch for sending patches around. Submodules.
Two of these I haven't done: Cherry-picking (well I did once, it went so wrong I had to reset the repository), and Bisects. That sounds very useful.
It's rather embarrassing that github would consider it too difficult or too troublesome to release Linux builds. Very insulting towards a huge chunk of its user base. Regarding GUI, how do you initiate a pull request on the command line?
You could use this: https://github.com/github/hub#git-pull-request