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GitKraken: git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux

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Re: GitKraken: git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux

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Post by alpb »

The applicatino asks you to register with my email address for further "communications related to GitKraken or Axosoft". There is no way to skip this step, you have to provide an email address ––and pay attention to "OR"... No thanks, buddy.

First thing I tried is dropping a git repo folder to the window, didn't work. When I click the open button I can see the Javascript animation glitching on my 'Early 2015 i5 2.7 Ghz MacBook Pro'.

The commit list UI is kind of alright but it doesn't show you the diff anywhere. So that's not exactly a Git UI, buddy. And this is not open source either, that's a lot of strikes. No thanks.

Re: GitKraken: git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux

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Post by grincho »

js2 wrote: post #31
nine_k wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1 and 2 can be handled by meld[1], available both on Linux and on OSX (via brew). It integrates with git with just `git mergetool -t meld`. 1: http://meldmerge.org/

In particular, you really want a 3-way merge tool (which compares yours and theirs to the common ancestor) for resolving conflicts. Meld didn't used to have this, but it looks like it does now. FWIW, on OS X you can also configure git to use opendiff (which opens FileMerge). It does the job pretty well. Source: my day job used to involve daily merging of Chromium with Rockmelt and I probably evaluated every merge too…

A little off-topic: since 10.10 or so, FileMerge has started opening the bottom, free-editing pane by default—and at a random height, at that. Has anyone figured out how to disable that? It's driving me into the arms of a different, otherwise inferior diff tool.

Re: GitKraken: git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux

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Post by flurdy »

skimmas wrote: post #23
skimmas wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure but they describe it as a git client, not a github client so I guess you can hook it up to whatever you please.

ups... on the faq "Does GitKraken support GitHub Enterprise/Bitbucket Server? GitKraken currently does not support these services but support is planned for a future release."

I guess by support they mean creating PRs etc directly from the client. Which from the screenshots seems to currently to be the public github.com and bitbucket.org.

However I would very surprised if they did not support normal git remotes so it is irrelevant if that is Github Enterprise, Bitbucket server(Stash), Gitlab or whatever.

Re: GitKraken: git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux

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Post by readme »

Love the interface, dark theme and super intuitive. Could use syntax highlighting in diffs, though. It will need that feature to convince me to pay money, later.

One weird thing: it'd be great to have the option to show a name, instead of a shrunken avatar in the commit log, perhaps configure how this is shown, so I can choose the format of the name and if I want to see an avatar or not... I may be the only one, but seeing a 100+ row long column of just my face (I have worked on a few projects solo) kind of creeps me out.

Any idea when the product is going to be ready and how much it will cost?

Re: GitKraken: git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux

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Post by solipsism »

hvis wrote: post #36
solipsism wrote: post #17

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Seems like you should investigate that, then. The first step is noticing that you may be acting irrationally. The second step is correcting (if in fact it turns out to be irrational, which I'm not claiming).

There are very good reasons not to get invested into non-free software, starting with privacy concerns. Speaking of which, https://www.axosoft.com/privacy seems to say that the application is allowed to send home virtually unlimited amount of information about your repositories and the work you do in them.

Okay, I purposefully and carefully avoided taking a stance on whether or not one should invest in non-free software. You missed that apparently, as did the people downvoting me.

Re: GitKraken: git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux

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Post by dvirsky »

lallysingh wrote: post #8
0942v8653 wrote: post #3

Not open source: http://www.gitkraken.com/faq

Yeah. I don't know when this happened, but that's become a deal breaker for me. Strange, right? Edit to add: It's particularly strange because I wouldn't depend on this tool in some infrastructural way -- I could switch clients anytime without any lock in. But I'm no longer willing to even try anymore. Odd.

I'm not concerned by the fact that it's closed source alone, but by the fact that it's both closed source and free-as-in-beer. You know, the whole "if you are not paying for the product you are the product" thing.

According to the FAQ it's free while they're iterating until they start a freemium model, which makes sense. But in that case I prefer the InteliJ model, where the community version is also open source.

Re: GitKraken: git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux

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Post by shortstuffsushi »

bengotow wrote: post #39
lallysingh wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. I don't know when this happened, but that's become a deal breaker for me. Strange, right? Edit to add: It's particularly strange because I wouldn't depend on this tool in some infrastructural way -- I could switch clients anytime without any lock in. But I'm no longer willing to even try anymore. Odd.

I don't think this is a dealbreaker for 99% of people. I currently use Tower ( https://www.git-tower.com/ ), a closed-source Mac Git client that costs $70. It's beautiful, it speeds up my work day to day, and it's been worth every cent. Open source is great and I spend my days building an open-source mail client, but I have no problem paying for great tools.

I hate to be that guy, but you're paying $70 for that? What does that offer over, say SourceTree, Atlassian's free offering. From a quick glance, they look pretty similar to me.
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