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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

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Post by kinofcain »

Very impressive. This has some features we've been missing in bitbucket/gitlab/github and it looks like the UI is well thought out and still simple.

The IDE-like source parsing is interesting, and I disagree with some of the other commenters here that that should only exist in an IDE, but the java limitation makes that just a novelty for us.

Particularly though the gerrit-style workflow and the rules engine for permissions is enticing. We'd love to move to something like gerrit but don't want to give up the friendliness of bitbucket/github.

Nice job.

Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review

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Post by robinshen »

skrebbel wrote: post #53

Folks, this is why you want to do code reviews inside your editors / IDEs. I like this project, but really what they did is build a read-only version of an IDE from the ground up. You already have one and you know it inside out. I've found, as the OP did, that the GitHub/Lab/Bucket code review UIs strongly encourage nitpicking over code style and strongly discourage true insightful reviews on a design and architectur…

Thanks for the ideas. While I agree with you that desktop IDE is a good place for design and architecture level reviews, having a lightweight web "IDE" will be beneficial as it does not require you to switch your local workspace to particular revisions for review.

Also I often find myself need to copy code from some old revisions, in that case, I just visit our web "IDE", find desired revisions with revision search helper, and open desired symbols to copy relevant code out.

Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review

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Post by robinshen »

kinofcain wrote: post #61

Very impressive. This has some features we've been missing in bitbucket/gitlab/github and it looks like the UI is well thought out and still simple. The IDE-like source parsing is interesting, and I disagree with some of the other commenters here that that should only exist in an IDE, but the java limitation makes that just a novelty for us. Particularly though the gerrit-style workflow and the rules engine for permi…

We are a Java shop and created the tool to manage our own code initially. Our next priority is to make it supporting more languages.

Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review

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Post by robinshen »

badminton1 wrote: post #27

Well, in a sense, this departs from github in the sense that they try to keep everything as simple as possible (sort like the Apple design philosophy). But developers are, or should be, power users. And in that regard a tool like this is VERY welcome. A tool that exposes some more sharp edges in exchange for flexibility.

We also try to keep things simple. Without gatekeepers, the pull request workflow is quite the same as GitHub. Advanced users can explore gatekeepers to achieve much flexible workflows. Hackers may also write plugins to add their own gatekeepers in future releases. 8)

Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review

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Post by dugmartin »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #2

I 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'm building something like that now but instead of annotations in the code it captures your browse through the codebase as a tree that you can then annotate, save and share. It is going to run both in the browser to explore code hosted on GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, etc and locally as an Electron app.

Very vague landing page with signup here:

http://www.browsethesource.com/

Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review

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Post by lima »

deng wrote: post #7

This 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...).

Phabricator handles it well thanks to its Arcanist CLI tool.

Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review

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Post by deng »

lima wrote: post #67
deng wrote: post #7

This 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...).

Phabricator handles it well thanks to its Arcanist CLI tool.

As I understand it, Phabricator largely avoids the problem because it is primarily patch-based and not branch-based? How would arcanist handle a force-pushed branch without simply starting a new review process?

Re: Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review

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Post by kinofcain »

robinshen wrote: post #63
kinofcain wrote: post #61

Very impressive. This has some features we've been missing in bitbucket/gitlab/github and it looks like the UI is well thought out and still simple. The IDE-like source parsing is interesting, and I disagree with some of the other commenters here that that should only exist in an IDE, but the java limitation makes that just a novelty for us. Particularly though the gerrit-style workflow and the rules engine for permi…

We are a Java shop and created the tool to manage our own code initially. Our next priority is to make it supporting more languages.

Yeah, figured as much. Look forward to that.
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