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Re: GitHub for Windows

#11

Post by harrylove » Mon, May 21, 2012, 4:39 PM UTC

I hope this is the beginning of the end of TFS.

Re: GitHub for Windows

#12

Post by evanw » Mon, May 21, 2012, 4:40 PM UTC

I'm interested to see how the community responds to their choice of ClickOnce as the deployment method.

I use ClickOnce for several of my applications, and I'd say the users who dislike it the most have the highest technical aptitude (which, I'd guess, is a large part of GitHub's user base).

Re: GitHub for Windows

#13

Post by FuzzyDunlop » Mon, May 21, 2012, 4:40 PM UTC

tallowen wrote: post #5

I find it interesting that both native apps (for Windows and Mac) try hard to emulate the look and feel of their respective operating system. One thing that is great about github.com and other websites is that it feels the same across multiple environments. Furthermore web browsers try to emulate their own style not that of the host operating system. If I use chrome or firefox in mac or windows they feel basically th…

I would hope so. Being a good OS citizen is nothing but a good thing. Fewer surprises, fewer quirks, more intuitive to the user (if done right), etc.

It's nice to know GitHub made the effort.

Re: GitHub for Windows

#14

Post by lucassouza1 » Mon, May 21, 2012, 4:41 PM UTC

Great job!

Re: GitHub for Windows

#15

Post by debacle » Mon, May 21, 2012, 4:41 PM UTC

This is very interesting.

Will this tool be able to work with non-github git repositories?

Re: GitHub for Windows

#16

Post by cool-RR » Mon, May 21, 2012, 4:43 PM UTC

I've been expecting this for months, and as I guessed, it's pretty disappointing. I think that SmartGit is a much better GUI for Git on Windows.

Just the fact that it doesn't have keyboard shortcuts is a dealbreaker.

Re: GitHub for Windows

#17

Post by ChrisAnn » Mon, May 21, 2012, 4:44 PM UTC

Does it allow you to format your commit messages?

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17

Re: GitHub for Windows

#18

Post by leon_ » Mon, May 21, 2012, 4:46 PM UTC

lol, ugly

Re: GitHub for Windows

#19

Post by ConstantineXVI » Mon, May 21, 2012, 4:46 PM UTC

Very well done. ClickOnce installer; solid UI (rare on Windows, I've found), and even installs git hooks into PowerShell so there's no need to dump the user into bash (unless they want it).

One downside, not entirely obvious how one's supposed to clone a repo with this?

Re: GitHub for Windows

#20

Post by statictype » Mon, May 21, 2012, 4:49 PM UTC

xpaulbettsx wrote: post #8

statictype wrote: post #6

I'd be interested in learning how they implemented the UI - it looks like it's native to Windows 8 but runs just as well on Windows 7. Would be interested to hear what toolkit they used. So far, the UX has been impressive for a tool that has historically not run very well on Windows. Edit : They've mentioned the toolkits used at the bottom of the page. Apparently this is written in C#.

The UI was implemented using WPF4 and Blend. We also use a framework called Caliburn Micro as well as a framework I wrote called ReactiveUI which orchestrates connecting the UI to data via binding.

Thanks for the info. It looks like you chose to embed Chromium for rendering markdown? What was the reason for not using an embedded IE instance (which is already part of every Windows installation).