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Re: Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

#101

Post by clounie »

Enjoying it so far, as an ST user, been pretty effortless figuring out where everything moved.

Few thoughts:

* Where can we give feedback other than here? Github repo or support site?

* Request: For those of us with large monitors, being able to change all fonts (not just diff) would be huge. (On OS X for reference.) Been a gripe of mine with SourceTree for a while.

* Potential bug: I changed the default folder for repositories, but it doesn't seem to have changed the list of repositories sourced from the default folder, when I did that.

* Request: add a 'Done' button to right side of the commit dialog. Having to press 'Cancel' after making commits feels like you're undoing changes.

Re: Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

#102

Post by bastijn »

developer2 wrote: post #89
bastijn wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SourceTree has a tabbed interface as well now. The diff viewer might be interesting if it's really good but I think that to require an external viewer where the company focused on that as a product. On Mac most of the good options are paid though, might help you.

All of the OS X interfaces to Git are, to be honest, quite terrible. Sourcetree is awful. GitHub Desktop is even worse. I've tried a couple of others, the names of which elude me at the moment. I think most of it is less of a complaint against the software itself, and more of a problem with trying to present the complexities of Git in a simplistic UI. The simple fact is: Git as a whole is really, really freaking comp…

Agree with all of your points. SourceTree nowadays does not select by default (at least my setup doesn't) but it's still far from optimal.

WinMerge? On Windows? I'm using beyond compare which is pretty nice when correctly configured, tortoise internal diff ain't bad either. Both have three way diff which I consider standard for any diff tool. Jetbrains indeed get a lot of things right. Using their resharper (visual studio), webstorms and itellij ultimate versions. They make amazing products.

Re: Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

#103

Post by bastijn »

developer2 wrote: post #89
bastijn wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SourceTree has a tabbed interface as well now. The diff viewer might be interesting if it's really good but I think that to require an external viewer where the company focused on that as a product. On Mac most of the good options are paid though, might help you.

All of the OS X interfaces to Git are, to be honest, quite terrible. Sourcetree is awful. GitHub Desktop is even worse. I've tried a couple of others, the names of which elude me at the moment. I think most of it is less of a complaint against the software itself, and more of a problem with trying to present the complexities of Git in a simplistic UI. The simple fact is: Git as a whole is really, really freaking comp…

Agree with all of your points. SourceTree nowadays does not select by default (at least my setup doesn't) but it's still far from optimal.

WinMerge? On Windows? I'm using beyond compare which is pretty nice when correctly configured, tortoise internal diff ain't bad either. Both have three way diff which I consider standard for any diff tool. Jetbrains indeed get a lot of things right. Using their resharper (visual studio), webstorms and itellij ultimate versions. They make amazing products.

Re: Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

#104

Post by bastijn »

weaksauce wrote: post #66
bastijn wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SourceTree has a tabbed interface as well now. The diff viewer might be interesting if it's really good but I think that to require an external viewer where the company focused on that as a product. On Mac most of the good options are paid though, might help you.

> SourceTree has a tabbed interface as well now. Does it really? I just checked that I am on the latest version on osx and it's not tabbed. Is this a windows only feature or something?

Hm that might be. It has been a while since I last booted my osx SourceTree. Prefer command line with some terminal extensions there.

Re: Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

#105

Post by awill »

bdcravens wrote: post #25
duaneb wrote: post #19

If it doesn't include interactive rebase, it's not worth the cash because I'll have to go back to the CLI before I merge anything. EDIT: Fork looks wonderful, I didn't mean to be so cold—just pointing out that it's hard to write a replacement for the original tool, and that I value it when it happens. I believe Sourcetree supports it.

> it's not worth the cash Well, it is free :-) (at least while in beta)

Will it be paid after the beta? It's important to be upfront about these things.

Re: Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

#107

Post by DanPristupov »

eiopa wrote: post #83

Reminds me of gitx (a good thing!) :) Is there a way to only view commits that belong in the current branch (like git log)? The commits from the other branches are distracting when you're trying to read the history of a particular branch.

Not yet. This is a very popular request. I'm going to implement that next week.

Re: Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

#108

Post by DanPristupov »

awill wrote: post #105
bdcravens wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it's not worth the cash Well, it is free :-) (at least while in beta)

Will it be paid after the beta? It's important to be upfront about these things.

I'm planning to keep the main version free. However, having a premium version with some extra features is also possible.

Re: Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

#109

Post by swisspol »

developer2 wrote: post #89
bastijn wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SourceTree has a tabbed interface as well now. The diff viewer might be interesting if it's really good but I think that to require an external viewer where the company focused on that as a product. On Mac most of the good options are paid though, might help you.

All of the OS X interfaces to Git are, to be honest, quite terrible. Sourcetree is awful. GitHub Desktop is even worse. I've tried a couple of others, the names of which elude me at the moment. I think most of it is less of a complaint against the software itself, and more of a problem with trying to present the complexities of Git in a simplistic UI. The simple fact is: Git as a whole is really, really freaking comp…

If you haven't tried http://gitup.co/, give it a shot. It works completely different from any other Git client and might meet your needs.
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