Octohub – The missing app for GitHub • Hacker News Board

Re: Octohub – The missing app for GitHub

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Post by bracewel » Mon, Jan 05, 2015, 2:19 PM UTC

gress wrote: post #8

gkya wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not.

Have you tried it?

OS X only...

Re: Octohub – The missing app for GitHub

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Post by skratlo » Mon, Jan 05, 2015, 2:21 PM UTC

If pointless-ware is a thing, then this is it. Can anyone comment on the "missing" in the title? Missing by who?

Re: Octohub – The missing app for GitHub

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Post by hobs » Mon, Jan 05, 2015, 2:30 PM UTC

gkya wrote: post #5

tomschlick wrote: post #2

how is this better than github.com?

It's not.

I havent tried the grandparent's software, but if I was going to use a native app I would probably try github's first.

https://windows.github.com/ https://mac.github.com/

I have shown the windows version to a few people and they grokked git a lot better than if I tried via the standard toolkit.

Re: Octohub – The missing app for GitHub

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Post by kaeawc » Mon, Jan 05, 2015, 2:38 PM UTC

Where can we get beta invite links?

Re: Octohub – The missing app for GitHub

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Post by michaelmior » Mon, Jan 05, 2015, 2:39 PM UTC

tomschlick wrote: post #2

how is this better than github.com?

I do like the idea of being able to tag repositories. This is something I wish GitHub would let me do.

Re: Octohub – The missing app for GitHub

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Post by ksherlock » Mon, Jan 05, 2015, 2:55 PM UTC

hobs wrote: post #13

gkya wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not.

I havent tried the grandparent's software, but if I was going to use a native app I would probably try github's first. https://windows.github.com/ https://mac.github.com/ I have shown the windows version to a few people and they grokked git a lot better than if I tried via the standard toolkit.

Github's app lets you push and pull and do some minor work on your repositories. the Octohub app lets you search projects and stalk people.

Re: Octohub – The missing app for GitHub

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Post by athenot » Mon, Jan 05, 2015, 2:57 PM UTC

I'm confused: GitHub already has an app for the Mac[0]. It's fast. It's compact & doesn't waste screen real estate. It's stable. And it's updated very frequently.

Sure, it may not have all the features that the site has but it excels at being that convenience bridge between what's on my filesystem and what's on the site.

[0] https://mac.github.com

Re: Octohub – The missing app for GitHub

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Post by abritishguy » Mon, Jan 05, 2015, 3:01 PM UTC

This seems like it should be a dead simple chrome/safari extension. Not an app.

The only thing this app appears to do is let you "tag" repositories.

Re: Octohub – The missing app for GitHub

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Post by juliangregorian » Mon, Jan 05, 2015, 3:02 PM UTC

What could this app possibly do that isn't possible on Mavericks?

Re: Octohub – The missing app for GitHub

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Post by gkya » Mon, Jan 05, 2015, 3:13 PM UTC

gress wrote: post #8

gkya wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not.

Have you tried it?

No. Because, first, I'm a gnu/linux user nowadays, and second, even if I was a Mac user I would need more than 4 PNGs to convince me to use a software I encounter for the first time.

edit: ...and, as the app for Github is not missing, the third reason for not using the app is that its web page is shamelessly lieing* .

* One may well see this as «lying», but I reject to spell like that.