Looks like it is trying to be an IDE.
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Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
> annotations - not just "comments" What kind of annotations would not make sense as comments?
I'm thinking in terms of what I'd do if the code was printed out on paper. http://imgur.com/KMCBMjA
The trouble with that is, how on earth do you get the annotations to apply across revisions? Or would you be OK with them only applying to a given revision and then ... what, disappearing? Or going into a 'floating bucket' of annotations for the entire file?
Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
#33I 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…
Right now, I would take a button to go to the previous revision of a file, showing the full file with the diff underneath. That way I could very easily 'browse' through the history of a file to find out things like when a particular change got introduced or just get a feel for its history. Why on earth don't github/bitbucket provide this? Surely it's a reasonable and common requirement? Or is there something inherent to git that makes it too awkward?
Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
#34I 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…
You mean an IDE?
Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
It works fine now, I believe it could be a redeployment or similar.
Looks like many GitPlex downloads are going on... And this happens since two hours ago when I posted this news. The first time I've experienced with HN death hug, 8) Another thing in my agenda now (to optimize the web site and download).
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Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
#36Looks interesting, is there any precise roadmap ? (could not find one). Would be particularly interested by C# support, and with the tooling that Microsoft lately, I think it would be a perfect fit !
The next step is to support major languages, and C# is definitely on our road map.
Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
#37I 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…
You mean an IDE?
After a fashion. A reading/exploration-oriented lightweight IDE. No IDE that I know of support scribbling over code, for example. Also, for the mode of work I'm thinking about, having no ability to actually write code would be a feature.
Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm thinking in terms of what I'd do if the code was printed out on paper. http://imgur.com/KMCBMjA
The trouble with that is, how on earth do you get the annotations to apply across revisions? Or would you be OK with them only applying to a given revision and then ... what, disappearing? Or going into a 'floating bucket' of annotations for the entire file?
I'd be fine with them sticking to particular lines of code[0] and disappearing if those lines were changed. This is not something I'd like to commit into codebase, it's for exploration / preparing work.
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[0] - "smart stick" can be implemented by remembering not just the line in file, but also the contents of that line and a (fuzzy) context.
Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
#39I 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…
> Would be doubly useful if I could use it on a tablet That's something that baffles me: the complete lack of a comfortable (or at least not painful) way to read and annotate source code on Android.
Indeed. The closest I came to what I need was a proof-of-concept I did - printing source code to PDF and using Adobe Reader's annotation tools. Wasn't exactly convenient without a good ability to switch between multiple source files, but could be made to work. I'd love to have such browsing/annotation tool I could take with me to a park, to browse code and think about it while on a walk, without continuous distractions of the office / Internet connection.
Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
#40I 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…
Sourcegraph CEO here. We 100% agree, and that's why we built Sourcegraph. Check out our roadmap at https://sourcegraph.com/plan.
And try browsing code on Sourcegraph: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/gorilla/websocket/-/blob/... (we support other languages as well). Right-click on "parseURL" and choose "Find All References". If you click on "HasPrefix" a few lines below, you'll see a cross-repo jump (and the right-click menu lets you see global/cross-repo references).
Sign up at https://sourcegraph.com to get it on your own GitHub repos.