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Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket

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Re: Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket

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Post by defuzz »

Oompa wrote: post #30
defuzz wrote: post #16

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Sorry to hear that your IDE totally sucks - scnr. It just depends on how you approach it, since I prefer to work local and upstream revisions with change notes, the main reason for revision control. Given the featureset of github, it makes somehow sense, it just contradicts revision control to work directly in the repository.

How does it contradict revision control? You can make a change and add a commit message all in 1 fell swoop. Then the next time you `git pull` that commit will be pulled down, just like any other. As others have said, it's amazingly useful for quick and small changes. I don't see how that means someone's IDE sucks. I work on many projects and don't have all of them open in my IDE with the latest code always on my mac…

It makes sense if you are on the same social coding platform.

Re: Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket

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Post by defuzz »

drcongo wrote: post #20
defuzz wrote: post #16

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Sorry to hear that your IDE totally sucks - scnr. It just depends on how you approach it, since I prefer to work local and upstream revisions with change notes, the main reason for revision control. Given the featureset of github, it makes somehow sense, it just contradicts revision control to work directly in the repository.

Why are you so bothered that other people might like option to do this? Not everybody is you.

I just understood the social development platform approach, that is on top of revision control and has its benefits when are developers are on one platform like bitbucket or github.

Re: Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket

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Post by tudborg »

inthewind wrote: post #28
estebank wrote: post #24

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So you are saying git gets in the way? I'm curious about why that is the case.

I didn't know if they used git or hg, and I wasn't necessarily having a go at either. The poster obviously thought that there was less friction to an online edit, so you have to ask yourself why that is? Perhaps they don't like fiddling about on the command line, their IDE is too klunky, file managment is a pain, their version control interface is convulted, or they are not sitting at their computer with their codeba…

Or maybe the issue tracking system is a web tool that links to the file in the repository and you could fix it with a click to edit instead of pull,open file,fix,commit,push.

Documentation or fixes to comments in code is an obvious usecase for online edits cross-language.

If you'd really rather do the pull,open,fix,commit,push i would argue that you are too stuck in your own ways.

Re: Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket

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Post by defuzz »

columbo wrote: post #22
defuzz wrote: post #4

I fail to understand why I shouldn't use my favorite editor, I'd call it a non-feature (useless, not available from the competion because it is useless).

I don't believe we'll ever see developers tossing out their IDEs to edit things through the web, but this as an API this is a huge open ended solution towards automated testing. You are doing some clojure work, you commit it, the unit tests run and fail. Clojure can tell you exactly what function failed with what data and it could commit a file for you to execute in your repl. Using the ability to edit/create files t…

Thanks for confirming what I had in mind.

Re: Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket

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Post by metaphorm »

kmfrk wrote: post #25
rschmitty wrote: post #6

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It is nice at least for editing .md files to update readme/instructions/etc. Sometimes I want to do a quick edit without having to cd directory, make sure I'm up to date, edit file, add/commit/push just for a md file in the repo

Exactly. It's only a useless feature, if you think people who don't think a service by BitBucket will ever be used by people unfamiliar with git and programming. I for one am very pleased with the opportunity for crowd-sourcing fixes and improvements to open-source websites and projects - especially for people whose interest in them is not grounded in the programming aspect.

how many non-programmers are poking around in code repositories?

Re: Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket

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Post by [deleted] »

kmfrk wrote: post #25
rschmitty wrote: post #6

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It is nice at least for editing .md files to update readme/instructions/etc. Sometimes I want to do a quick edit without having to cd directory, make sure I'm up to date, edit file, add/commit/push just for a md file in the repo

Exactly. It's only a useless feature, if you think people who don't think a service by BitBucket will ever be used by people unfamiliar with git and programming. I for one am very pleased with the opportunity for crowd-sourcing fixes and improvements to open-source websites and projects - especially for people whose interest in them is not grounded in the programming aspect.

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Re: Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket

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Post by recursive »

metaphorm wrote: post #35
kmfrk wrote: post #25

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Exactly. It's only a useless feature, if you think people who don't think a service by BitBucket will ever be used by people unfamiliar with git and programming. I for one am very pleased with the opportunity for crowd-sourcing fixes and improvements to open-source websites and projects - especially for people whose interest in them is not grounded in the programming aspect.

how many non-programmers are poking around in code repositories?

I don't really know how to use git, but I am a programmer. I use github a little bit though. To me, this is great.
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