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Designing GitHub for Mac

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Re: Designing GitHub for Mac

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Post by waleedka »

beck5 wrote: post #2

Has anyone been using this client, is it worth using as far as GUI's go?

I was excited when I heard about it, but after 5 minutes I was disappointed. Don't get me wrong, it's very well designed. But it didn't add value for me. I use GitX and I find it more useful, and has a better UI.

Re: Designing GitHub for Mac

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Post by tptacek »

What a f'ing fantastic article. Thank you so much for writing this.

I spent a decent chunk of time last year building up a somewhat large Cocoa application (a telling synecdoche of how ambitious the app is: it integrates libevent with the Cocoa loop and involved writing a whole new evented Redis-backed HTTPS cache in ObjC).

But unfortunately, I got to the UI part of this project ("UI part", heh) thinking "this is going to be so much easier than webdev, look at all these tools!, and that was a crushing disappointment; getting anything reasonable on the screen has been intensely painful, and is if anything much harder than CSS3+JQ is on modern web apps.

I'm thrilled to hear that at least to some extent, it isn't just me, and making a good-looking Cocoa app (especially your first) is just very hard.

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Post by pnathan »

beck5 wrote: post #2

Has anyone been using this client, is it worth using as far as GUI's go?

I've been using it. My prior experience has been with TortoiseHG.

I think it's a very simplified view of source control and badly needs to be iterated to appeal to power users.

That said, I'd recommend it for novices to source control.

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Post by msbarnett »

beck5 wrote: post #2

Has anyone been using this client, is it worth using as far as GUI's go?

I think it's a great simple interface for, say, our designers who may need to interact with git but don't necessarily need or want to know more about it than absolutely necessary.

For power users, look elsewhere.

Re: Designing GitHub for Mac

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Post by ghotli »

beck5 wrote: post #2

Has anyone been using this client, is it worth using as far as GUI's go?

I've been using it for about five days and I keep it open alongside textmate. I'm a CLI diehard but I do still find myself using it for things like switching branches and checking what's in a commit. It really does add value as far as that's concerned.

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Post by peteysd »

I've been enjoying the app these last few days. Nice job! It's a great add-on to an already killer service. I'm quite happy to send the folks at Github some of my money each month, because they really earn it.

Re: Designing GitHub for Mac

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Post by beck5 »

ghotli wrote: post #8
beck5 wrote: post #2

Has anyone been using this client, is it worth using as far as GUI's go?

I've been using it for about five days and I keep it open alongside textmate. I'm a CLI diehard but I do still find myself using it for things like switching branches and checking what's in a commit. It really does add value as far as that's concerned.

I think you need a terminal window open when using git really (unlike mercurial but lets not fight now). I do however like Tower
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