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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 discreteevent »

pjmlp wrote: post #108
aidenn0 wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Am I the only one who remembers when $70 was cheap for anything development related? Either it's good enough to save you 5-10 minutes a day where it's obviously worth $70 or it's not, and isn't worth any price (well maybe a dollar or two if you are, say, a collector of git clients).

Somehow new generations of developers want all their tools for free, but expect to get money for their work. Strange profession, when compared how much some of other professionals pay for their tools.

Exactly. I have a Bosch drill and I recently had a carpenter trying to convince me that I should have spent three times as much on a Makita. He was basically trying to show me that the cheaper drill was a false economy. Its hilarious in software how much time we waste dealing with poor tools. Some free tools are excellent but in many cases spending some money will save you so much time and effort, enabling you to make more money and giving some of that to the developers. Wins all round.

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

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Post by elcapitan »

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…

The no-skip email registration was basically the end of it for me too.

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

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Post by dovdov »

elcapitan wrote: post #122
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…

The no-skip email registration was basically the end of it for me too.

Same here, pretty impressive looking email harvester though.

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

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Post by slashdotdash »

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.

GitHub Desktop[1] runs on both OS X and Windows. It works with non-GitHub git repositories too.

[1] https://desktop.github.com/

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

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Post by HelloNurse »

millstone wrote: post #18

This is an Electron app, meaning it does not look, feel, or perform like a native Mac app. FYI in case that's important to you.

So they can't bother learning, and/or hiring for, appropriate programming languages and architectures for a GUI application. From Javascript hipsters to Javascript hipsters.

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

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Post by boomlinde »

0942v8653 wrote: post #56
boomlinde wrote: post #40

Title seems a bit misleading. From the FAQ: Does GitKraken support GitHub Enterprise/Bitbucket Server? GitKraken currently does not support these services but support is planned for a future release. The only conclusion I can draw from this is that GitKraken supports one or more specific git based services that aren't GitHub Enterprise or Bitbucket, both of which use git. I'm assuming that the service it does support…

Not sure how the title is misleading. It supports any git remote, but it has a few extra features (GH-style pull requests for example) that aren't really a part of Git. Those features are only possible on a GitHub or Bitbucket server, not just any git remote, but it currently only supports using them on the main public GitHub/Bitbucket servers.

If not the title, the FAQ is misleading. If it supports any git remote it supports Bitbucket and GitHub enterprise.

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

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Post by HelloNurse »

npizzolato wrote: post #30
wwkeyboard wrote: post #14

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You missed the point of the post. edit: When you load the page there is nothing to convince someone to dig further. All it says is "trust us it's better".

So you're basically just arguing that their webpage doesn't have a good layout. If you want to dismiss the product because of that, that's your choice, but I wish people would keep complaints about website design to themselves. They're so boring . I come to HN to read insightful commentary about articles and projects, and complaints about the websites themselves just make me roll my eyes.

But bad websites are correlated with bad products: the same incompetents are responsible for both, either directly or indirectly through accepting the work of bad designers and consultants.

Personally, I found the fullscreen pointless animations an arrogant abuse of my bandwidth and of my eyes, and the lack of content above and below the fold (and of scrolling and of the fold itself) a powerful source of claustrophobia; I noticed the tiny links to merely bad pages moments before closing the page in anger.

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

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Post by mbrock »

slashdotdash wrote: post #124
andrei_says_ wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

GitHub Desktop[1] runs on both OS X and Windows. It works with non-GitHub git repositories too. [1] https://desktop.github.com/

I wish the GitHub Desktop app would be more of a browser for GitHub.com, including issues.

GitHub's site is not really convenient for me, the notifications aren't very useful, it generally feels like a clunky way to work.

If GitHub were smarter, they could have become the Slack of development. There's so much room for improvement there.

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

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Post by seanp2k2 »

btown wrote: post #103
andrei_says_ wrote: post #64

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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.

gitup ( http://gitup.co for those interested) looks amazing! My team's been using https://rowanj.github.io/gitx/ which has been a godsend - many of the same features, including interactive diff staging and tree view, in a native-feeling Mac interface. But that gitup screencast, how it makes rebasing painless - that's like nothing I've seen before. I'll definitely give gitup a try. In general, these types of interface…

Because IMO struggling and learning "the hard way" first forces people to understand what is actually happening at the git level before using fancy tools like this or Tower to e.g. rebase master or otherwise do complicated unnecessary things because the tool makes them easy to do and "it seemed like the right thing".

There are a lot of ways to do git. If you frequently find yourself needing a GUI tool to do more than compare diffs (there are a few good ones out there), it's very possible that the way you / your team are using git could itself use some work.

If you're very new to git on teams or even if you're more intermediate, https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows/... is probably worth a read to understand how this stuff can work nicely for projects. It really shouldn't be rocket surgery to cut a new release :)

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

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Post by seanp2k2 »

dvirsky wrote: post #120
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #119

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"most GUI clients are for people who just don't want to learn to use the CLI properly" Ridiculously arrogant comment with nothing to back it up. GUIs exist; get over it. "How do you expect to compete with other existing and stable products?" It's a beta. The T's & C's pretty much translate as "it's a beta". What do you want them to do, NOT release a beta? Fair enough if so, but a lot of software is released this way.…

I use both with git, nothing wrong with that. A GUI client for committing which allows me to better look at diffs and makes selecting files for staging easier, not having to do `git status` all the time; and the command line for everything else - pulls, merges, rebases, cherry picking etc etc.

You might also like: https://github.com/magicmonty/bash-git-prompt

Basically shows you 'git status' at a glance, all the time. More for bash people: https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it (similar to ooh my zsh)

https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell#for-developers

PyCharm / any IntelliJ-based IDE, Atom, vim, emacs etc can also all nicely show git status of your current project. I'd suggest one of those as well in whatever flavor of editor you prefer.

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