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Re: GitHub for Mac

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Post by veidr »

phillmv wrote: post #131
bradleyland wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Part of the reason is that the commercial clients have finally eclipsed gitx in power, ease-of-use, and prettiness.

Notably, SourceTree (what mainly use) and Tower (if the incomprehensible one-repo-at-a-time limit isn't a dealbreaker) now compare favorably to gitx in most ways.

So I don't recommend gitx anymore, but from what I hear Gitx (L) is a fairly active and popular fork:

http://gitx.laullon.com

Re: GitHub for Mac

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Post by jonursenbach »

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...

Mused on Twitter earlier about this but got shot down by @kneath.

Thought it was interesting that Hubcap was in the first screenshot on the blog post and @kneath himself was a backer of the project, meaning that he's had an inside look into the development of Hubcap while they've been creating Github for Mac.

Conspiracy theory I know, but I thought it was interesting at least.

Re: GitHub for Mac

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Post by smhinsey »

joshuacc wrote: post #121
iaskwhy wrote: post #78

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Two days ago I gave SmartGit a try and don't really see a reason to look back: http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/

Thanks for the tip. I will check it out.

Git Extensions is not bad either, although I'm not using the VS addins. The GUI is nice for visualizing histories and things like that.

Re: GitHub for Mac

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Post by veidr »

newman314 wrote: post #47

How does this compare with Git Tower?

Well, for one thing, they both have very pretty UIs that are severely dysfunctional in exactly the same way: you can only have one window open at a time, which means you can't use the app to look at two repos at the same time.

For seriously using git for development, I find that pretty nuts.

Every time I want to browse a different repository, I have to destroy all the work I did opening the window for the current repo and drilling down through the UI to get to the part I am interested in? Seems crazy.

I think more apps would do well to learn from the windowing strategy of Mail.app on Mac. It too has a monolithic main window where everything happens--but Cmd-Opt-N creates a "New Viewer Window". Another complete window with all the power of the first. Search for foo in window 1, read mail list bar in window 2.

This sort of arrangement would make Github for Mac (and Tower) worth looking at.

As it is, if I have to throw away several seconds of work every single time I open another repo, those seconds are going to add up -- and annoy me -- very quickly.

(By the way, just to check, I tried out making a few copies of the app and opening multiple repos that way. Just like Tower, the app started to puke modal error dialogs and show blank windows, so that doesn't work.)

Re: GitHub for Mac

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Post by carterschonwald »

veidr wrote: post #151
phillmv wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the canonical gitx repository these days? Everyone I know uses a different fork, much to my dismay.

Part of the reason is that the commercial clients have finally eclipsed gitx in power, ease-of-use, and prettiness. Notably, SourceTree (what mainly use) and Tower (if the incomprehensible one-repo-at-a-time limit isn't a dealbreaker) now compare favorably to gitx in most ways. So I don't recommend gitx anymore, but from what I hear Gitx (L) is a fairly active and popular fork: http://gitx.laullon.com

Yup. Thats the currently devd version of gitx. There's been the odd bug hiccup, but those have been fixed and it getting moderate dev work.

Re: GitHub for Mac

#160

Post by kbd »

Given that github is written in Ruby, I wonder if they evaluated MacRuby before writing their Mac client.
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