GitUp makes Git painless

the_ancient wrote: post #2

>>Requires Mac OS X 10.8 or later Apparently it is not the interface I have been missing... Having a Git tool not available for Linux is blasphemy

Yeah how dare they develop a nice and useful tool, right?

Re: GitUp makes Git painless

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Post by dan00 » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 5:24 PM UTC

I don't know if it's such a good idea to start by showing how easy changing commit messages is or even have this option that easily available, because after all you're changing the history and the beginner might not be aware what this really means, and beginners seem to be the target audience for this tool.

Re: GitUp makes Git painless

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Post by swisspol » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 5:24 PM UTC

v-yadli wrote: post #3

No commit logs in the graph? I would prefer a list view instead...

Try Cmd-D to see a list of ancestor commits with summary, date & author while in the Map view.

Re: GitUp makes Git painless

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Post by graffitici » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 5:26 PM UTC

dan00 wrote: post #5

I don't know if it's such a good idea to start by showing how easy changing commit messages is or even have this option that easily available, because after all you're changing the history and the beginner might not be aware what this really means, and beginners seem to be the target audience for this tool.

I agree. If you've already pushed to other repos with the old commit message, this can cause issues. The only time I actually change the commit message is when I'm sure that nobody else has seen it. I'm not even sure what happens when you change the local commit message, and push it again. Does it just get updated in the remote repo?

Re: GitUp makes Git painless

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Post by swisspol » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 5:27 PM UTC

dan00 wrote: post #5

I don't know if it's such a good idea to start by showing how easy changing commit messages is or even have this option that easily available, because after all you're changing the history and the beginner might not be aware what this really means, and beginners seem to be the target audience for this tool.

Actually, GitUp was designed to be for professional software engineers first, even though it may also appeal to beginners. It's faster than the CLI for a number of operations, and offers features that don’t even exist natively in Git like a visual commit splitter or a unified reflog browser.

The Map view documentation does have a large warning on rewriting history (which obviously is required for a number of operations), but I agree that an in-app warning might be good too: http://forums.gitup.co/t/using-gitup-map-view/34.

Re: GitUp makes Git painless

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Post by davexunit » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 5:28 PM UTC

Hmm that's not Magit...

OSX only and proprietary: no thanks.

Re: GitUp makes Git painless

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Post by quadrangle » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 5:29 PM UTC

Git is a registered trademark, I don't see notice of permission… maybe they didn't ask and might not have it?