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Re: GitHub for Mac

#191

Post by tzury » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 9:47 AM UTC

Have you noticed this comment?

https://github.com/blog/878-announcing-github-for-mac#commen...

    josscrowcroft commented about 16 hours ago 
    
    Holy crap! Cool!

    All that time i spent learning Git from the command-line, WASTED.

There is no doubt, a new generation of Hacker is emerging, where yourself the command-line-fu is a waste of time.

Re: GitHub for Mac

#192

Post by 5l » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 11:46 AM UTC

dazonic wrote: post #162

5l wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He meant bubble as in 'echo-chamber', and in that sense of the word it isn't overused. It's not outlandish or absurd to design something you might want, but it is a bit silly to ignore a larger market with the same underlying need.

They're not ignoring a larger market, they're ignoring a smaller one: > Beyond that, one-third of our traffic uses Macs. It's not a small market for us.

I feel like I must be missing something here; how is the 2/3rds that don't use Mac OS the smaller market?

And as others have pointed out, the market doesn't just consist of GitHub users, or even Git users. In this case, it's developers who use an RCS and need a good desktop application to go with it.

In any case the point may be moot; judging by the rest of the comment you quoted they're not ignoring other platforms at all but rather just using Mac OS as a first step, which I can understand.

Re: GitHub for Mac

#193

Post by gizzlon » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 11:50 AM UTC

tzury wrote: post #191

Have you noticed this comment? https://github.com/blog/878-announcing-github-for-mac#commen... josscrowcroft commented about 16 hours ago Holy crap! Cool! All that time i spent learning Git from the command-line, WASTED. There is no doubt, a new generation of Hacker is emerging, where yourself the command-line-fu is a waste of time.

It's not the command line that makes git daunting, it's everything you have to know about git to use it effectively.

I don't believe a GUI can remove that without making git lot less powerful.

Re: GitHub for Mac

#194

Post by bradendouglass » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 12:08 PM UTC

tzury wrote: post #191

Have you noticed this comment? https://github.com/blog/878-announcing-github-for-mac#commen... josscrowcroft commented about 16 hours ago Holy crap! Cool! All that time i spent learning Git from the command-line, WASTED. There is no doubt, a new generation of Hacker is emerging, where yourself the command-line-fu is a waste of time.

The CLI_FU's are just becoming more and more useful (and paid more). GIT is just becoming more and more useful for everyone from writers to designers. Those groups of people usually run with their tails between their legs away from the command line.

Re: GitHub for Mac

#195

Post by jayroh » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 12:52 PM UTC

crag wrote: post #173

eli wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't argue with your reasoning But I just switched from self-hosted SVN to Github and it was painful for our Windows devs. Offer a stupidly easy upgrade path from TortoiseSVN to Github and I would have joined a long time ago. In fact I'd pay extra for that. I think I am not alone.

You aren't alone. Using Github on Windows is TERRIBLE. It's not even worth the trouble at this point. Even at the command line it's a mess. I access my repo from home on my mac.

Anyone else noticing that Github is becoming synonymous with "Git" - like kleenex is to tissues and xerox is to copying machines?

Crag do you mean GITHUB, the website and service, overall, or just GIT the version control system?

Re: GitHub for Mac

#196

Post by arturadib » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 1:01 PM UTC

It's crashing quite a bit with me - all I do is to fire it up via /usr/local/bin/github while inside a repo. It displays the changes, but more often than not it crashes...

Re: GitHub for Mac

#197

Post by arturadib » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 1:05 PM UTC

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…

Ouch, the review is a bit rough, but I agree on point #3 - it's annoying having to double-click on every commit to take a quick peek at its changes.

Re: GitHub for Mac

#198

Post by danssig » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 1:31 PM UTC

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).

I'm not so sure of that. If Mac is still the hacker (pg hacker, not New York Times hacker) platform of choice then there may be at least as many Mac users if not more.

Re: GitHub for Mac

#199

Post by danssig » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 1:36 PM UTC

uses wrote: post #114

watty wrote: post #83

Mac: Tower, GitX, GitBox, GitHub, Sprout, Gitti, SourceTree ... Windows: TortoiseGit?

Git Extensions is pretty nice for Windows. http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/

"nice" is going to far but it's completely workable. Better to use that than SVN in any case.

Re: GitHub for Mac

#200

Post by nupark2 » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 1:43 PM UTC

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.

That's a pretty telling irony.

Git seems to have broken down the social contracts around forking that kept most opensource projects cohesive. Unless the project has a great deal or inertia, it is difficult to remain the canonical source, and the project effectively disperses.