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Re: Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop

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Post by yellowapple »

vinay427 wrote: post #14
psycr wrote: post #7

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That seems like an obvious choice. Linux users are going to be cli friendly - an area Git happens to excel at already.

Yes, I've never found a Git client that doesn't result in a second-class experience. For anything common, a CLI is almost always quicker and more consistent. For everything else, I'd much rather quickly search a man page or Stack Overflow for a command than search through likely verbose help documentation for a GUI app.

I've had good experiences with magit (Emacs' git interface). Doesn't do much good if you ain't an Emacs user, though.

Re: Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

msoad wrote: post #13

I'm assuming they're getting rid of all that native code for Windows and Mac and building something new on top of Electron. If so, why there is no Linux distro?!

Yeah building on top of Electron makes sense. As far as Linux goes I'd give it some time. If it's anything like Atom it'll be opened sourced so Linux support can be added (if anything specific even needs to be done). Their primary customers use Windows and Mac OS X so it makes sense to me to target those first.

Re: Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop

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Post by wlesieutre »

ormax3 wrote: post #33

I'm surprised no one mentioned SmartGitHg, much better than GFW and SourceTree. It is Java-based and runs on Win, Mac, and Linux http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/

It's also $120 for a commercial license that only includes 1 year worth of upgrades. Anything with the "updates for a year" instead of "updates until the next major release" is off-putting to me.

Re: Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop

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Post by jamesfmilne »

malnourish wrote: post #27
mklim wrote: post #20

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Source Tree ( https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ ) is great. Good visual layout of your diffs at any given point with the ability to stage/discard/unstage specific lines from within the program.

In my experience Source Tree is good but it happens to have noticeable slowdown and "jank" on both OS X and Windows after a while. On OS X I've been using Tower to great effect. Unfortunately it's OS X only.

I've found Tower to be very sluggish on a large repository on OS X, where as Source Tree keeps on trucking.

Our repo is 4GB and has about 1 million commits.

Source Tree is the only client on Mac I've found so far that doesn't completely grind to a halt on a repository of this size.

Re: Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop

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Post by ormax3 »

wlesieutre wrote: post #36
ormax3 wrote: post #33

I'm surprised no one mentioned SmartGitHg, much better than GFW and SourceTree. It is Java-based and runs on Win, Mac, and Linux http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/

It's also $120 for a commercial license that only includes 1 year worth of upgrades. Anything with the "updates for a year" instead of "updates until the next major release" is off-putting to me.

I dont know about that, I'm using it free for my personal non-commerical use :)

Re: Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop

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Post by gonewest »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #34
msoad wrote: post #13

I'm assuming they're getting rid of all that native code for Windows and Mac and building something new on top of Electron. If so, why there is no Linux distro?!

Yeah building on top of Electron makes sense. As far as Linux goes I'd give it some time. If it's anything like Atom it'll be opened sourced so Linux support can be added (if anything specific even needs to be done). Their primary customers use Windows and Mac OS X so it makes sense to me to target those first.

I guess it doesn't matter that git itself was created for Linux kernel development. Oh well.
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