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Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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Post by jskinner »

coldtea wrote: post #9
jskinner wrote: post #2

Hi HN - Jon Skinner here, I made Sublime Text and Sublime Merge, alongside the rest of the Sublime HQ programming team - Will, Dylan and Benjamin. Let me know if you have any questions! Edit: there's also the announcement blog post, at https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-merge

Totally appreciate your ST work Jon (main driver for 6+ years, used Vim before for 15+ years). Will definitely try Merge. Does it offer any integration with Sublime itself (e.g. if someone has a license for both)?

Thanks for the kind words! There's some basic integration now, and we'll be adding more in the future.

Right now, Sublime Merge will pickup installed Sublime Text packages (e.g., for syntax highlighting), and will also find Sublime Text when you choose Open in Editor from within Merge (this can be customised to something else though, of course).

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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Post by levani »

jskinner wrote: post #2

Hi HN - Jon Skinner here, I made Sublime Text and Sublime Merge, alongside the rest of the Sublime HQ programming team - Will, Dylan and Benjamin. Let me know if you have any questions! Edit: there's also the announcement blog post, at https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-merge

Do you have any plans to add a debugger GUI in sublime? Integrated git tooling and debugger is the main reason I use VS Code.

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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Post by _hao »

saagarjha wrote: post #8
_hao wrote: post #5

How does it compare against GitKraken?

Well, for one, GitKraken is Electron while the Sublime tools are native C++. So I’d expect faster performance.

I remember something about Sublime being written in Python? Also I'm more curious about the feature set. The performance argument can be made again for Sublime vs VSCode. Doesn't matter to me because I've switched from Sublime to VSCode a long time ago.

I care about features the most, not if the app will open in 0.5s or 3s

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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Post by vmsp »

jskinner wrote: post #2

Hi HN - Jon Skinner here, I made Sublime Text and Sublime Merge, alongside the rest of the Sublime HQ programming team - Will, Dylan and Benjamin. Let me know if you have any questions! Edit: there's also the announcement blog post, at https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-merge

Jon, it's impressive how you deliver incredibly performant cross-platform UIs. You really should consider talking about your development and custom widget toolkit.

Great job on Sublime Merge.

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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Post by thune »

_hao wrote: post #13
saagarjha wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, for one, GitKraken is Electron while the Sublime tools are native C++. So I’d expect faster performance.

I remember something about Sublime being written in Python? Also I'm more curious about the feature set. The performance argument can be made again for Sublime vs VSCode. Doesn't matter to me because I've switched from Sublime to VSCode a long time ago. I care about features the most, not if the app will open in 0.5s or 3s

Sublime Text plugins are written in Python, but the core is C++ AFAIK.

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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Post by saagarjha »

Very nice. Fast and responsive, unlike most of the Git clients I know. And the new preferences UI is pretty cool.

A couple questions:

* Can I add custom themes from my Sublime Text installation? How about color schemes?

* Are there plans for plugin support?

* Is there a development channel?

* Have you thought about adding tabs?

* Have you considered showing previews of binary files?

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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Post by Serow225 »

Congrats! I know what I'm doing at work tomorrow :) Does it have gitflow support built in? Also just FYI the main page shows a "download for Mac" button in iOS Safari, I almost thought it was Mac-only until I went to the Download page. Maybe the front download link should autodetect the platform but also give you the option/drop-down to select another? Or at least make it obvious that it isn't the only platform. Cheers

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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Post by wingerlang »

Feedback:

- I would be nice to be able to remove the name inside the commit log. It's only me on this project and literally 50% of the lines (ever other) is my name.

- I would also like to have the option to split top/bottom like sourcetree, so that I can read the full commit message easier.

- The 'end of list' looks like a loading indicator

- 'Staging lines' only appear when I select something on the line (even one characer). It would be good if clicking in a line actually selected the whole line instead of adding a (unusable?) cursor

- The logo might want to have a shadow where the light and darker color meet. Right now it is looks kinda strange. The Sublime Text logo has shadows where two edges meet. That logo does 'fold' over itself though which this one doesn't. But anyway the color difference is strange on my eyes.

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