Does it allow you to format your commit messages? https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17
You're brave sending pull requests to Linus on github for the Linux Kernel from a Windows machine ;)
GitHub for Windows
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Re: GitHub for Windows
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
NSync isn't finished yet - ClickOnce is 95% of what we want but has some pretty damning flaws (tells people randomly that an app is "Unknown Publisher", certs expire after one year and now people have to uninstall/reinstall, proxy server problems, etc). NSync is my ongoing (not finished yet!) project to recreate ClickOnce
I figured that was the case. How much of an overlap do NSync and NAppUpdate ( https://github.com/synhershko/NAppUpdate ) share? Would love to see some type of collaboration between the two. BTW is there a way to submit tickets other than email for GitHub for Windows? Maybe a GitHub repo? Would make it rather easy to submit and track issues while also limiting the number of duplicates.
NSync has a somewhat novel mechanism of delivering updates (via repurposed NuGet packages) that would be difficult to shoehorn into NAppUpdate or other frameworks
Re: GitHub for Windows
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm surprised that the responses to this amount to, "I don't understand it, don't want to follow instructions and want a two-click GUI". Git isn't magic. To leverage it well, you need to be willing to get down and dirty with the CLI sooner or later. If you're unwilling to learn Git, don't use it. If you're a dev, source control is one of your tools. Learn it or find a tool that holds your hand more. I don't know how…
You're being down-voted into oblivion. You get even more insulting as you're falling down in your edit. Mm disclaimer: I'm a windows dev by day. I introduced git into that shop I'm working at, the rogue 'I set it up, would you technical guys like to work with it' way. This happened 1.5 years earlier, today it's the blessed and only source control in play (ignoring one sad division having to deal with tfs.. Oh the ago…
"You want to use Git, you should know how to use Git"
If that's insulting, then I'm going to have to learn to live with being a cruel, mean person.
Also, it's GitHub's fault that they use an existing secure method of transferring source code instead of writing a new protocol that's easier for you to use. Because 4 step-by-step instructions are too hard to follow. OK.
I'm not even asking that you understand it, but simply be able to follow very, very simple instructions.
(It's perfectly reasonable to not like Git's toolset. There are dozens of other source control utilities out there. The only ones I know of that are more 'usable' are SVN and TFS, and the tradeoffs there are pretty stark in my humble opinion)
Re: GitHub for Windows
#134Please, please don't name your installer 'setup.exe' When I browse to my downloads folder, the most frustrating thing in the world is trying to figure out where 'setup.exe' came from.
I think it's called that way because of some kind of naming convention that Windows expects from installers?
Re: GitHub for Windows
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can't follow 3 step-by-step instructions, insult me by implying I'm flaming and then drudge up completely unrelated tools in a discussion about ssh-keygen? What do you people want? Seriously? Yes, I'd love to have a big red easy button. It could autoconfigure MySQL, and write init scripts, configure deploy environments because apache conf files are too complicated to learn. Hell, it could even write my backend co…
Nobody in this thread implied that you are flaming, nor intended to insult you; the person you are responding to is not the person you originally responded to, and he is commenting about people in other threads flaming him. I resent having to explain this to you. What the hell are you so angry about, seriously? People have less expertise than you, and that makes you upset?
>I resent being flamed because I don't fully understand the subtleties of zsh or nginx or or whatever other shiny toy someone else happens to find essential knowledge. Your world might not necessarily be mine.
That was in the post I replied to. It's insulting because it's accusing me of things that I didn't do. I merely am just a bit floored by the notion that following these instructions, http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/, is asking too much of someone who is going to be using Git regularly.
I guess I expect too much and seem to be wasting my energy. I apologize.
Re: GitHub for Windows
#136not sure about anyone else around here but this fella http://i.imgur.com/Q3d6N.png has popped up twice for me in the first 5 minutes of setting up.
I'm having the same issues. Having trouble adding local repos, pinning repos, and checking out branches.
I already had msys installed, so I'm concerned that GitHub may have tried to install it again, causing conflicts.
Re: GitHub for Windows
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
I get really sick of this attitude. None of us want to understand every single domain of knowledge from set theory or quantum physics up to cosmology or social psychology. I personally have been forced to learn more low-level Unixy things than I ever wanted to. I want to write simple and elegant front and back end code quickly so I can spend my spare time honing UX and other human-facing aspects of my work. I resent…
> None of us want to understand every single domain of knowledge from set theory or quantum physics up to cosmology or social psychology. Speak for yourself. All of those are fascinating.
Speak for yourself. They are fascinating for you, but not for me or many other people.
Re: GitHub for Windows
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
I get really sick of this attitude. None of us want to understand every single domain of knowledge from set theory or quantum physics up to cosmology or social psychology. I personally have been forced to learn more low-level Unixy things than I ever wanted to. I want to write simple and elegant front and back end code quickly so I can spend my spare time honing UX and other human-facing aspects of my work. I resent…
> None of us want to understand every single domain of knowledge from set theory or quantum physics up to cosmology or social psychology. Speak for yourself. All of those are fascinating.
Actually. I agree with you (apart from the fact that I haven't had a chance to learn much about social psychology). I was just trying to think of examples of disciplines at opposite ends of an imagined continuum.
Re: GitHub for Windows
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's one thing to be scared of the deep inner-workings of OpenSSH (which truly can be scary). It's another thing to be "scared" of ssh-keygen, especially considering it's something that most competent developers will use when managing servers, deploying to Heroku, managing source, etc. "ssh-keygen -t rsa", set a passcode on it, upload the id_rsa.pub and you're done. Demonstrating a lack of understanding of that was w…
The important thing you missed then and are still missing now is that none of that stuff you mention happens in the Windows world. We set up VPNs to our servers and access them via network paths or directly using Remote Desktop. One can go one's entire career without ever typing ssh-keygen into a terminal window. It's certainly not a step involved in setting up a client to talk to version control. You don't have to b…
"Thanks to that team, folks in our side of the dev world now have an easy path into Git and GitHub, and can go about our merry way building things without ever having to parse what it was that you did in your second paragraph."
... except when github messes up, forces you to do a SSH key audit and then you're back to needing to know "scary crypto stuff".
... or when you try and use git outside of github
Re: GitHub for Windows
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
I get really sick of this attitude. None of us want to understand every single domain of knowledge from set theory or quantum physics up to cosmology or social psychology. I personally have been forced to learn more low-level Unixy things than I ever wanted to. I want to write simple and elegant front and back end code quickly so I can spend my spare time honing UX and other human-facing aspects of my work. I resent…
You can't follow 3 step-by-step instructions, insult me by implying I'm flaming and then drudge up completely unrelated tools in a discussion about ssh-keygen? What do you people want? Seriously? Yes, I'd love to have a big red easy button. It could autoconfigure MySQL, and write init scripts, configure deploy environments because apache conf files are too complicated to learn. Hell, it could even write my backend co…
I apologise. My comment was only modestly related to it's context. I've been suffering from a bit of *nix-fatigue at the moment and I wanted to vent.