I prefer a CLI. But thanks! Intro page looks great, by the way!
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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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.
Wow, that's ridiculously expensive! Especially considering the OFFICIAL client is free software. I also think you exagerate with it not being a deal breaker. I don't know any software developer IRL that uses proprietary git clients, or other developer-specific tools which are proprietary. Maybe most people don't care about FLOSS/propietary, but devs tend to care a lot more.
what's the official client?
Re: GitKraken: git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux
#143Earlier 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.
Wow, that's ridiculously expensive! Especially considering the OFFICIAL client is free software. I also think you exagerate with it not being a deal breaker. I don't know any software developer IRL that uses proprietary git clients, or other developer-specific tools which are proprietary. Maybe most people don't care about FLOSS/propietary, but devs tend to care a lot more.
I'm in an office surrounded by people using Visual studio on windows, running Perforce. We do have some git infrastructure, and anyone that interacts with that uses sourcetree. I know that the diff tools of choice are Araxis Merge/P4Merge/Beyond Compare. There's also people using VisualAssist on top of Visual Studio.
There's plenty of developers who don't mind using proprietary tools
Re: GitKraken: git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux
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Yet you can extract the embedded app.asar and get the source code if you so please. There may be native libraries that are closed source. This is another Electron app after all.
That's almost certainly not the point being made. Building a workflow around non-free development tools means that eventually you're going to find support for your favored tool evaporating.
Using non open source tools is Harlech ever a problem. Yes the support can disappear, but so can one for FLOSS software. I am working on a tool which is based on a graveyard of abandonned open source libraries and taking them over is absolutely not an option. The only thing you can do is to slowly move to an alternative and hope that it will get maintained. With tools the choice is usually very easy because you can switch to other tools any time.
Re: GitKraken: git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux
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In my situation I use gitg to add changes by chunks or lines, I think that's much more faster than cli. But gitg is hard to compile on Ubuntu lts if you want newer versions, I wonder if there is a good alternative?
I generally do that sort of thing(staging/destaging lines and chunks) in my editor. If I could shift the merge tool stuff into my editor quickly I would do that as well. The reason is that it reduces context switching and difference between environments: sure, I could spend hours making the fonts, colours, and keybindings the same between the git gui and my editor; I could get really good at switching to the window;…
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Re: GitKraken: git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux
#146Serious 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.
The lead tech at one place I work at uses the commandline for his own commits, but a gui app (can't recall which one) for manipulating merges and pull requests, as it more reliably deals with issues in his experience.
To be completely honest, I also do it like this at the moment, using Kdiff as a merge tool. I've been thinking about moving over to Ediff, but I'm lazy.
Re: GitKraken: git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux
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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.
Why is it strange? Lots developers who write free software get paid for their work.
Only in areas where software is not the main product.
Re: GitKraken: git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux
#148has anyone ever found the spaghetti tangle of branches diagram useful for anything?
every git gui provides one but I've never managed to parse any useful info from it. maybe you have to be supernaturally disciplined about your commit history or something. or maybe they're just fun to build, yay data visualisations etc
Re: GitKraken: git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux
#149I personally never use GUI clients for git, the CLI does exactly what it's supposed to do, efficiently, quickly in a stable reproducible manner, most GUI clients are for people who just don't want to learn to use the CLI properly. But some tips for your project: 1-Lose the forced email registration 2-Easy on the Luxury, we're devs not divas 3-The beta agreement is just way too scary to take the product seriously, exa…
I find a GUI very convenient for picking chunks that I'd like to commit.
Re: GitKraken: git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux
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The no-skip email registration was basically the end of it for me too.
Same here, pretty impressive looking email harvester though.
I just gave my throwaway email address, let them spam it all they want.
I wasn't overly impressed by their app (not to say that it's bad, given the overall scarcity of decent GUI options for Git), but I wanted to take a peek... having to provide some email isn't a showstopper at this point