Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
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Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
#2I don't care much about code review, but it's a close enough attractor to the space of code reading that it seems to be draining attention. So let me hijack this topic and post a request for product (I'd write it myself, but priorities... adult life sucks hard).
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I dream of a tool that facilitates code reading and exploration. It has some similar features with code review tools, namely:
- integration with version control systems
- basic semantic search/navigation
- looks clean
- not meant to be for writing code
But my dream tool also has following features I haven't seen implemented in any code review tool (or anywhere):
- annotations - not just "comments", but the ability to tag lines, to strike them out, highlight, color, scribble on them, etc. - basically anything you'd do with a printout of a code
- easy way to review history of a single file (with annotations)
- ability to easily bookmark areas / pieces of code and use those bookmarks in comments / annotations
- ability for viewing structural diagrams of the codebase
- full blown semantic search - who calls, calls who, etc.
- project-structure-oriented, not repository-history/commit-oriented
Basically, I'd love a tool not for collaboration, but for individual work - a tool that would facilitate exploring and familiarizing yourself with big codebases, as well as empower one when the time comes to do bigger refactorings.
Would be doubly useful if I could use it on a tablet, so that I could get up from in front of my computer to go and think about the changes I'm about to make (right now, I end up actually printing code if I have to refactor something very messy).
Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
#3I don't care much about code review , but it's a close enough attractor to the space of code reading that it seems to be draining attention. So let me hijack this topic and post a request for product (I'd write it myself, but priorities... adult life sucks hard). -- I dream of a tool that facilitates code reading and exploration . It has some similar features with code review tools, namely: - integration with version…
Sounds like you described https://www.jetbrains.com/upsource/
(I am not affiliated with Jetbrains in any way)
Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
#4I don't care much about code review , but it's a close enough attractor to the space of code reading that it seems to be draining attention. So let me hijack this topic and post a request for product (I'd write it myself, but priorities... adult life sucks hard). -- I dream of a tool that facilitates code reading and exploration . It has some similar features with code review tools, namely: - integration with version…
I think GitPlex meets most of the requirement here if you are writing Java code (and more languages are being added). Unlike other tooks, it does not place any requirements on project build system (Maven, Gradle, etc) and can work on any project containing supported languages.
Checkout android code base for instance: http://gitplex.pmease.com/demo/android-framework-base/files?...
I actually created this tool to suffice my own needs when browsing history of QuickBuild source code.
Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
#5I'd be in favor of having some standard "code review markup language", which could contain review comments and workflows. Then you would be able to put these in files and make those files part of your repository (ie commit/push).
Then, you could build various frontends to handle these in a user friendly way if you like. But also, would be accessible and editable in your favorite text editor.
Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
#6I don't care much about code review , but it's a close enough attractor to the space of code reading that it seems to be draining attention. So let me hijack this topic and post a request for product (I'd write it myself, but priorities... adult life sucks hard). -- I dream of a tool that facilitates code reading and exploration . It has some similar features with code review tools, namely: - integration with version…
I get the feeling that Microsoft has a lot of these things, but they're disparate.
e.g. code navigation [1], search [2] and CodeLens [3].
[1] https://referencesource.microsoft.com/#mscorlib/system/strin...
[2] https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/search/code/advanced...
Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
#7This looks impressive, especially how they seem to handle rebases/squashes with force push, which is a problem that pretty much all other repo managers simply ignore (except for Gerrit, but that one has other problems...).
Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
#8check sourcegraph
Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
#9This looks impressive, especially how they seem to handle rebases/squashes with force push, which is a problem that pretty much all other repo managers simply ignore (except for Gerrit, but that one has other problems...).
reviewable.io handles that very well too
(but it's a hosted service)
Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
#10I'd be in favor of having some standard "code review markup language", which could contain review comments and workflows. Then you would be able to put these in files and make those files part of your repository (ie commit/push). Then, you could build various frontends to handle these in a user friendly way if you like. But also, would be accessible and editable in your favorite text editor.
As long as the tools and processes don't get in the way of communication because they require comments to be written in a particular format or in a precise place. Too often, such tools end up in discouraging the very thing they're supposed to help.