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Re: GitHub for Mac

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Post by phillmv »

bradleyland wrote: post #68
dchest wrote: post #28

I hate all the visual clutter and unjustified complexity the new stylish iOS-like interfaces bring. Those interfaces are only good for Twitter and friends (and for screenshots). Some feedback: * Get rid of huge spacing everywhere (for example here: http://github-images.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/2011/mac-screensh... ) * Make animations go faster. * History should have preview pane with diffs (see Mail) instead of making m…

Have you tried GitX? What you described seems a bit more like GitX than what GitHub is trying to do here. When I first fired this up, I made a tarball of one of the repos I'm currently working in (it has uncommitted changes) and started clicking around. I'd do something in the GitHub app, then go back to my bash prompt to see what happened. I was pretty confused when I switched branches and all my changes were gone.…

What's the canonical gitx repository these days?

Everyone I know uses a different fork, much to my dismay.

Re: GitHub for Mac

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Post by michaelschade »

ashleyw wrote: post #96

First time an application has been unsupported on my Core Duo (32bit) Macbook Pro. Is there a reason for it, does the application really require a 64bit OS, or did the GitHub guys just forget about us early Intel Mac owners?

Wondering the same thing, disappointed to see that I can't try it out :(

I know that Lion will be dropping support for us 32-bit Mac users, but it still sucks to see apps jumping on that bandwagon so quickly.

Re: GitHub for Mac

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Post by davepeck »

jonursenbach wrote: post #27

Will be interesting to see if they integrate issues and wiki into this. For a first release though, I'm impressed. Edit: Also would love to see this integrated with notifications so I can get Growl popups.

Not that this contributes much to the conversation but: YES on both counts.

I use GitHub's issue tracker in volume both for some fairly large projects (getcloak.com, walkscore.com, and wherebe.us) I've found that the Issues web interface leaves a lot to be desired. It's a fine v1 [v2 technically], but somewhat painful in practice once you have more than a handful of issues. The 280 North issues app was interesting but hasn't kept up with the latest GitHub features.

As for Growl: it would be great to have it built in. In the interim, there's this: https://github.com/miyagawa/github-growler/downloads

Re: GitHub for Mac

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Post by catch23 »

eli wrote: post #123
catch23 wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Github employees are the target market, they use Git don't they? What use is developing a windows app that none of the developers will use initially?

Selling software where the target market is exactly the same as the people writing it seems like it's the exception not the rule. I assume most OpenTable devs do not own a restaurant.

sounds like a strawman argument to me...

Re: GitHub for Mac

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Post by pclark »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #81
eli wrote: post #71

That's cool and all, but a Windows client would make a lot more business sense. There are already a couple of nice git clients for Mac. There aren't for Windows. And I assume github is targeting SMB with its paid offerings. Unless you're a design shop or a hip startup, odds are you're not running OS X. Based on my unscientific data, most companies have the devs working on Windows (or occasionally Linux).

> Unless you're a design shop or a hip startup They are the latter. Welcome to the San Francisco bubble, where you think everyone uses iPhones and Macs, because in your world everyone does. It's the same reason Twitter has a Mac app but not a Windows app. They build these things for themselves (and arguably they should).

You're not describing a bubble, "making something I want" isn't some outlandish absurd thing for developers and designers do. Bubble is rapidly outpacing pivot for most misused word.

Re: GitHub for Mac

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Post by sunchild »

I've been using this app for a few hours now, and I have no idea how people can complain about it. It's freakin' amazing! I love it. Thank you!

Re: GitHub for Mac

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Post by martey »

kevinherron wrote: post #95

What ever happened to the Kickstarter project to create a native GitHub app? Is this it? Is this something else? Is that project now doomed? http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sferik/hubcap-a-github-c...

sferik, the developer of that project, has talked a bit about his thoughts on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/#!/sferik/status/83585135836016640

https://twitter.com/#!/sferik/status/83588359066353664

https://twitter.com/#!/sferik/status/83600376061894656

https://twitter.com/#!/sferik/status/83616031309967360

Re: GitHub for Mac

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Post by pointlessjon »

dchest wrote: post #93
pointlessjon wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You argue that spacing produces clutter, but I completely disagree. Clutter is shoving tons of information together without spacing.

You argue that spacing produces clutter "You argue"? Clutter means (let me open the dictionary) "a collection of things lying about in an untidy mass". I never said only spacing produces clutter. Either I'm not explaining myself clearly or you read something that was not in my comment (this is called a strawman, right?)

I never said you are completely, objectively wrong. I just disagreed with a point.. On that note, I see nothing untidy.

No hostility meant by "you argue". You provided a critique, an argument. I'd open the dictionary... ;)

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