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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 vuldin »

mrmondo wrote: post #89

Nice, well done done on the UI, I have a few issues though. 1. I shouldn't need to sign up with your service, this also makes me distrust the product. 2. There is no Gitlab login option. 3. It looks to be written in Javascript and thus uses a lot of resources: http://imgur.com/a/uEH4U So it's not /really/ a desktop app, it looks like it's just a chrome wrapper for some javascript?

It seems weird to me that in this day and age people would be making negative comments about an app with this one's functionality being written in JavaScript/ecmascript. This app looks awesome and performs well on my platform, not sure if I'll continue to use it over the CLI client but so far I'm impressed.

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

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Post by alphakappa »

shortstuffsushi wrote: post #49
bengotow wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

SourceTree's latest update makes you login to an Atlassian account just to be able to use the app. That has been a deal-breaker for an otherwise great app.

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

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Post by ufo »

__david__ wrote: post #54
bengotow wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

As a long time git command line user, I've played with different GUI clients, but I don't see where it would speed me up (and in fact, they seem to just slow me down). What about it helps you in your day to day coding? Do you interact with git exclusively through a GUI, or do you use some mix of command line and GUI?

GUIs are gmore discoverable than the command line so they are great when you need to do something that you don't do very often.

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

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Post by jrs235 »

rbosinger wrote: post #78

Lots of negativity here. I use SourceTree normally and although I'm a command-line comfortable vim/tmux/fugitive/etc kind-of-guy I've decided I like GUIs for GIT. GitKraken is worth watching IMO. So far I've liked using it (I started trying it at 0.5 and just came back to it now with this 0.8 announcement). I don't care that it's an Electron app. It seems snappy enough for me. Isn't Slack on Electron? I have that run…

It was and is developed by Axosoft, a competitor of Atlassian (JIRA). Atlassian has SourceTree, Axosoft now has GitKraken. I'm assuming they'll keep GitKraken free for a long time in an effort to be able to market Axosoft.

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

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Post by scope »

andrei_says_ wrote: post #64
alpb wrote: post #42

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 G…

If you're on OS X I recommend gitup. Very fast and clean. Although if I remember correctly, it does ask for an email address.

I use gitup as my git client and I'm completely satisfied. It was even made open source since 1.0

It hasn't asked me for email (the only email it has is for `user.email` git config)

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

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Post by swisspol »

andrei_says_ wrote: post #64
alpb wrote: post #42

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 G…

If you're on OS X I recommend gitup. Very fast and clean. Although if I remember correctly, it does ask for an email address.

No email address or any sort of signup is needed since 1.0.

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

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Post by swisspol »

millstone wrote: post #67
ex3ndr wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be honest, html-based scroll lists are usually much faster than native one. Reason: Very obsolete UI framework for Mac.

This is totally backwards. HTML has no good elements for long lists at all, leading to janky techniques like "infinite scroll." But NSTableView was designed from the start with very long lists in mind. Try opening a large repo and scrolling a list of commits in GitKraken. You'll see large blank areas that get filled in after a few seconds. Now try it in, say, GitUp, which uses NSTableView: it is perfectly smooth.

GitUp also loads the entire repo history in memory in a very optimized way, which is a key reason why it's so fast. Incidentally, this is something a web app like GitKraken can pretty much only dream of.

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

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Post by swisspol »

Vlaix wrote: post #76

Serious question, never used a git GUI in my life, is there a practical point to it ? I just can't see myself doing it without zsh, my nested .dotfiles, fasd and so on. And worst case scenario, I can always git them back.

Believe or not, there are a number of cases where you can work faster in a GUI than the CLI: many operations on the topology of the repo for instance. See somes examples at http://gitup.co/.

Disclaimer: I made GitUp for that very reason ;)

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