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Re: GitUp makes Git painless

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Post by friendzis »

stinos wrote: post #130
Touche wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no market for this sort of thing on Windows. The vast majority of development that happens on Windows takes place in either Visual Studio or Eclipse, and those developers prefer tools that integrate with their IDE rather than be standalone.

Maybe I'm odd but apart from working in VS, none of your statements hold true for me. I saw this and was like 'gimme gimme' only to find out it is OSX only. Quite a disappointment, especially given the recent stall (afaik) in SourceTree for Windows development, making me go back to the command line more and more again. I vastly prefer standalone tools for things like git because else I have to learn the builtin tools…

At my previous workplace I tried to introduce something better for code versioning than tarballs or (more often than not) date suffixed folders. We used windows. CLI was just a total no no. Long story short, I tried bunch of GUI tools/plugins. Most tools were either too simple for anything beyond personal repo or graphical git command/switch selector. Out of everything I tried SmartGit [1] stood out for its power (never had to use shell for about half a year) and still graspable simplicity. IIRC supports custom providers OOB.

[1]: http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/

Re: GitUp makes Git painless

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Post by joshschreuder »

kohanz wrote: post #81
dcre wrote: post #72

I'm a SourceTree user on Mac. Just tried GitUp out for an hour. Here are the problems I have with SourceTree: * Slow as hell * No/bad keyboard shorts, and setting up custom ones is annoying and buggy * Uses tons of memory — it eventually gets up to 1 GB after running for a day or two, and my repos are not very big. My thoughts on GitUp: * Crazy fast (almost disarmingly so – I think it needs more visual confirmation w…

> Here are the problems I have with SourceTree: > * Slow as hell Good to know I'm not the only one with this issue.

There have been serious issues with performance in the 1.6 releases (including Windows).

There are a few Git specific things if you're running Git https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4485059/git-bash-is-extr...

And in Sourcetree, set options under Options -> Diff, set Size Limit (Text) to 128KB and Size Limit (Binary) to 1024KB.

Re: GitUp makes Git painless

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Post by antihero »

stinos wrote: post #130
Touche wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no market for this sort of thing on Windows. The vast majority of development that happens on Windows takes place in either Visual Studio or Eclipse, and those developers prefer tools that integrate with their IDE rather than be standalone.

Maybe I'm odd but apart from working in VS, none of your statements hold true for me. I saw this and was like 'gimme gimme' only to find out it is OSX only. Quite a disappointment, especially given the recent stall (afaik) in SourceTree for Windows development, making me go back to the command line more and more again. I vastly prefer standalone tools for things like git because else I have to learn the builtin tools…

Why exactly do you stick with Windows? Hardware?

Re: GitUp makes Git painless

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Post by djur »

res0nat0r wrote: post #92
djur wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's nothing wrong with charging money for a product. You can charge money for a product without it being proprietary software.

There also is nothing wrong with proprietary software. Don't run it, or purchase it if you have some moral disagreement with it, but many people don't and are perfectly happy to pay money for it.

There are a lot of people who believe there is something wrong with proprietary software. You don't have to agree with the FSF or their goals, but it does everyone a disservice to conflate the argument for software freedom with an argument against proprietary software. The FSF considers commercial use and distribution of software to be an important part of software freedom and does not consider licenses that forbid it to be free.

And if you think it is unethical to sell proprietary software and refuse to use it oneself, it is also perfectly reasonable to advocate that others follow the same course. A value position that one doesn't believe others should follow isn't a value, it's just a preference.

Re: GitUp makes Git painless

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Post by jfroma »

hatsix wrote: post #83
jakobegger wrote: post #54

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The Mac is a phenomenal platform to launch right now if you make software targeted at developers. There's huge growth in mobile development, and many mobile developers work on OS X. Not just iOS developers, I'm seeing lots of Android devlopers working on Macs too recently. And if you make a new tool, you should go where the young (in the sense of experience, not age) developers are. Experienced developers already hav…

Having just (involuntarily) switched to a Mac at work, I can also attest to the fact that Mac users tend towards impulse buying software... The fact that I have to buy software to get proper window management and a good window switcher makes me furious. App-only switching makes no sense to me. I just want to pull up the last window I was looking at, I don't want to have to think about whether it was in the current ap…

It is true and I dont like this either but I still prefer working on OS X than windows because in windows I cant use most of the tools I use and than linux because of the pain of running linux on desktop.

OS X is a nix that works well on a very specific puece of hardware. I am not wasting my time and sanity fixing some driver compatibility issue.

Re: GitUp makes Git painless

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Post by gelatocar »

SomeCallMeTim wrote: post #113
cheald wrote: post #87

It's kind of amusing to me how the pendulum has swung, and we're now producing OS X-only developer software. But then, I'm an oddball who works on Windows as my shell with the real work happening on a headless Linux box via SSH and Samba for 99% of my development.

You're not the only oddball. Some of us work on Windows software and NEED the Windows box -- I also use too many Windows-only tools to make the jump to Mac. And what they do with Cmd-vs-Alt drives my fingers crazy, so I can't configure a Mac to be sane no matter what I try. And I use keyboard navigation to peruse menus, which OS X still hasn't implemented...the list goes on, and I stick with Windows.

OSX has had the ability to navigate menus with the keyboard for more than 10 years - Ctrl + F2

Re: GitUp makes Git painless

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Post by therealdrag0 »

Touche wrote: post #108
cheald wrote: post #87

It's kind of amusing to me how the pendulum has swung, and we're now producing OS X-only developer software. But then, I'm an oddball who works on Windows as my shell with the real work happening on a headless Linux box via SSH and Samba for 99% of my development.

There's no market for this sort of thing on Windows. The vast majority of development that happens on Windows takes place in either Visual Studio or Eclipse, and those developers prefer tools that integrate with their IDE rather than be standalone.

I use standalone SourceTree on windows, even though I develop in Eclipse.

Re: GitUp makes Git painless

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Post by simoncion »

tracker1 wrote: post #168
hatsix wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you resolve 'executable' files in your VM? I've not been able to run node apps because executables end up getting stored in /node_modules/, but if that is on a windows share, no executable flag is stored. Resolving the FS differences has always been the biggest pain for me using windows as the core OS.

I'm not sure where your disconnect is... - SSH to linux box with node on it - Edit files via Samba/CIFS from windows box - Run node/iojs via nvm for the project on linux - ??? - PROFIT! Don't execute programs on a network drive... especially across platforms, you're asking for pain.

Eh? NFS-mounted /home is an age-old staple of corporate system configuration.

Re: GitUp makes Git painless

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Post by exogen »

gelatocar wrote: post #196
SomeCallMeTim wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're not the only oddball. Some of us work on Windows software and NEED the Windows box -- I also use too many Windows-only tools to make the jump to Mac. And what they do with Cmd-vs-Alt drives my fingers crazy, so I can't configure a Mac to be sane no matter what I try. And I use keyboard navigation to peruse menus, which OS X still hasn't implemented...the list goes on, and I stick with Windows.

OSX has had the ability to navigate menus with the keyboard for more than 10 years - Ctrl + F2

Additionally, you can open the Help menu for any app by pressing Cmd-?, and the search box there will find any menu item for you.

Re: GitUp makes Git painless

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Post by enoch_r »

hatsix wrote: post #83
jakobegger wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Mac is a phenomenal platform to launch right now if you make software targeted at developers. There's huge growth in mobile development, and many mobile developers work on OS X. Not just iOS developers, I'm seeing lots of Android devlopers working on Macs too recently. And if you make a new tool, you should go where the young (in the sense of experience, not age) developers are. Experienced developers already hav…

Having just (involuntarily) switched to a Mac at work, I can also attest to the fact that Mac users tend towards impulse buying software... The fact that I have to buy software to get proper window management and a good window switcher makes me furious. App-only switching makes no sense to me. I just want to pull up the last window I was looking at, I don't want to have to think about whether it was in the current ap…

> The fact that I have to buy software to get proper window management and a good window switcher makes me furious.

Off-topic, but what window management software did you buy? I use Spectacle (http://spectacleapp.com) which is free, and it seems to fit my needs fairly well, but, uh, I'll live up to your stereotype and admit that I'd be glad to pay for something better. :)

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