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Re: GitHub Desktop 1.0

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Post by pixelmonk »

siddhant wrote: post #69
holydude wrote: post #19

I'll add to the Electron hating bandwagon. Not every native app is good and often the UI and design feels crappy. I mean this was the case for decades. But I will still prefer crappy looking performant app over nice looking sluggish electron app. I really really would not want to use a "productivity" type of application that is made in Electron but I also know that many people do not mind. This said we are again in t…

On a related note - are there any frameworks you could use to write native-ish Mac apps without knowing Objective C or Swift?

RubyMotion

Re: GitHub Desktop 1.0

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Post by Kpourdeilami »

I have been using the beta version of Github's Electron app for a while and hadn't suspected it might not be a native app. It feels very snappy and quick.

On my laptop, it uses less than 80MB of RAM

Re: GitHub Desktop 1.0

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Post by ameliaquining »

willtim wrote: post #23

They've gone to all the trouble of building an app using web technologies, but don't offer a Linux version? I develop on Linux because I deploy on Linux. I don't need a virtual assistant or animated emojis. I would quite like a nice Git UI however.

There's an open issue: https://github.com/desktop/desktop/issues/1525

Some people have gotten it to work and they've indicated that they're interested in officially supporting it at some point. Perhaps it will get more attention now that the 1.0 release is finally done.

Re: GitHub Desktop 1.0

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Post by msoucy »

toxican wrote: post #51
ruskimalooski wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitKraken is the best GitUI I've ever used. I highly recommend it. I use it for personal projects and at work. Professional License is really reasonable.

Ugh, that pricing model though. $50/yr for something as 'simple' as a frontend for git when so many comparable alternatives exist for free.

While not perfect, it does help that it's free for non-commercial use

Re: GitHub Desktop 1.0

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Post by cygned »

It always configured my repos to use Git LFS - which is not installed because I don't use it.

I hope it can be turned off now, I wasn't able to find that setting.

Re: GitHub Desktop 1.0

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Post by ruskimalooski »

toxican wrote: post #51
ruskimalooski wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitKraken is the best GitUI I've ever used. I highly recommend it. I use it for personal projects and at work. Professional License is really reasonable.

Ugh, that pricing model though. $50/yr for something as 'simple' as a frontend for git when so many comparable alternatives exist for free.

I have yet to find a single Git Front end that allows drag and dropping of branches. Feel free to enlighten me.

Re: GitHub Desktop 1.0

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Post by zeugmasyllepsis »

Kpourdeilami wrote: post #73

I have been using the beta version of Github's Electron app for a while and hadn't suspected it might not be a native app. It feels very snappy and quick. On my laptop, it uses less than 80MB of RAM

Around 80 MB of RAM with my project open in GitHub's Electron-based desktop app as well.

For comparison, gitk is about 14 MB for the same project.

Overall, GitHub's desktop app seems to have fairly stable memory use in my experience, though that stable mark seems relatively high compared to native counterparts. Not nearly as bad as some Electron apps, which seem to have no ceiling to their memory usage. Not a horrible price to pay, if you can accept the stable overhead.

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