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

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$99 for this? When there's git cli, magit, fugitive (which you should be using if you're really really in need of a GUI (and which is also better than whatever the demo is showing))? I'm all for paying for your tooling if you can afford it but overcharging much?

I make more than $99 per hour… So I just need to use this software for one hour to justify its price.

If you cannot afford it, then just use the try-out version, which offers unlimited functionality.

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

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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.

100% this, I have to switch between multiple editors because the ergonomics of sublime are too good but it's debugger is not

Trying to migrate away using spacemacs but it's not going well

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

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> "The evaluation version is fully functional, but is restricted to the light theme only." They really know their target audience.

I haven't used it in a while, but wasn't this also the main differentiator between Unity and Unity Pro (or whatever the paid version was called)?

It was an excellent motivator. :)

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

#255

$99 for this? When there's git cli, magit, fugitive (which you should be using if you're really really in need of a GUI (and which is also better than whatever the demo is showing))? I'm all for paying for your tooling if you can afford it but overcharging much?

It is essentially free unless you want the ability to customize the colours. This is even more generous than SublimeText. Not even nagging popups.

Nope, there are popups just like in ST. But good people will purchase a license, so that's not a problem, right? ;)

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

#256

This looks pretty good! Maybe this is a good time to air some complaints about all of these Git UIs. The approach of every single Git app that I've encountered is to present the history as the entry point to working with a project. Maybe I'm a weirdo, but that's not how I primarily work with git, and while having such a history view is critical, I'd like a tool that actually doesn't do that as its main mode of operat…

I know this is for windows only but you might check out https://tortoisegit.org/ it has shell integration that lets you see what each files status. I think this is what your describing.

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

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Jon, if you're looking for ideas what to work on next, please consider creating an email client. With fast UI & search, tree view for emails, proper support of plain text emails etc.

This is one of those things that I didn't know I needed. An email client made for power users with the speed, simplicity and flexibility of Sublime Text (and now Merge) would be the end of all of my email woes. I would pay a lot of money for this.

And then they add Exchange support and the whole thing slows to a crawl.

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

#258

This looks pretty good! Maybe this is a good time to air some complaints about all of these Git UIs. The approach of every single Git app that I've encountered is to present the history as the entry point to working with a project. Maybe I'm a weirdo, but that's not how I primarily work with git, and while having such a history view is critical, I'd like a tool that actually doesn't do that as its main mode of operat…

I know this is for windows only but you might check out https://tortoisegit.org/ it has shell integration that lets you see what each files status. I think this is what your describing.

I don't use Windows, but from what I can see from screenshots, TortoiseGit doesn't do anything I described except show file status, which most IDEs (e.g. Visual Studio Code) already do.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jon, if you're looking for ideas what to work on next, please consider creating an email client. With fast UI & search, tree view for emails, proper support of plain text emails etc.

This is one of those things that I didn't know I needed. An email client made for power users with the speed, simplicity and flexibility of Sublime Text (and now Merge) would be the end of all of my email woes. I would pay a lot of money for this.

Agreed. I would pay quite a lot for a native email client that respects your privacy.
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