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Re: GitHub for Mac 1.1

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Post by MaysonL »

nspragmatic wrote: post #39
bryanh wrote: post #23

Two annoying things I noticed: * Spelling correction in commit messages. * Option-Z commits instead of undos when entering a commit message.

> Option-Z commits instead of undos when entering a commit message. Cmd-z. Opt-z types ohm: Ω. I wonder why they did that.

That's omega, which is used as a symbol for ohms. It's also [and originally] the last letter in the Greek alphabet.

Re: GitHub for Mac 1.1

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Post by stblack »

Version 1.1 is crashing like a pig on Snow Leopard for me. This instability looks chronic; Ground Control to Major Tom.

My mistake appears to be adding a repo that lives in a Windows 7 Parallels VM, something that Git Tower handles reliably with ease.

EDIT: two application force-quits and restarts later, it's working better. My crime may have been dragging a bunch of repos into the application window. There's no progress indication, buy Github Mac 1.1 may have been background processing and therefore seeming hung? Who knows. It's better now.

Re: GitHub for Mac 1.1

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Post by jcheng »

ThomPete wrote: post #33

I am a designer but I use Tower for mac for when I commit my code to the repository. Anyone know if I am missing out on something with GitHub?

From what I've seen, not really. GitHub.app saves you from needing to know what staging, push, pull, fetch are. If you're already productive with Tower then I think going to GitHub.app would be like putting the training wheels back on.

Re: GitHub for Mac 1.1

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Post by alastairpat »

slig wrote: post #44

Sorry the stupid question, but: does this work with any git repo or this app is exclusively for github?

It works best with GitHub repositories, but you can use it for basic git commands with any git repository.

I'm not sure that it supports pushing to/pulling from anything except GitHub, so you might still need GitX/Terminal.app for that. I can't swear to this, though.

Re: GitHub for Mac 1.1

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Post by csytan »

james33 wrote: post #12
csytan wrote: post #5

I wrote a simple plugin for Sublime Text that opens the GitHub app and it's been working quite well as a replacement for Textmate & Git bundle. There's been a few rare times where I've had to drop back to command line because of crashes, but I'm glad to see it's being maintained and updated.

Mind making your plugin publicly available?

Done. https://github.com/csytan/sublime-text-2-github

Funny how writing the documentation took the same amount of time as writing the code for this. :)

Re: GitHub for Mac 1.1

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Post by mark_story »

radimm wrote: post #2

The interface certainly does look good, but man, I miss some consistency in navigation! And is it so hard to have mouse free control for application that is essentially GIT client?

If you don't want to use a mouse, why not just stick with cli? It doesn't require a mouse and can do everything any gui can do and more.

Re: GitHub for Mac 1.1

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Post by rmgraham »

rbonvall wrote: post #31
troels wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can split the hunks into smaller ones.

And you can also edit the patch manually.

I resisted the edit option of git-add -p for a long time because I was afraid of messing something up with a low level tool... big mistake! So easy to use!
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