No Linux support? Really?
That seems like an obvious choice. Linux users are going to be cli friendly - an area Git happens to excel at already.
Maybe they are assuming Linux users don't need a gui client? :)
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#12Just signed up. My git functionality is at a level of "can do all of the basic jank easily but need to Google everything else", which I'm super comfortable with, in all honesty.
The only thing I really want out of a GUI is a visual diff/comparison tool before pushes. Does anyone have any recommendations for something along these lines?
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#13I'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?!
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#14No Linux support? Really?
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.
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#15What's the difference between this and existing GitHub clients?
Nobody knows except the devs; it's not out yet, beta invites will start to be sent out within the next couple of weeks.
Actually I'm sure it's little more than a 'Github 2.0' client for now, a concept, with the details to be fleshed out after user feedback (hence the beta).
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#17Just signed up. My git functionality is at a level of "can do all of the basic jank easily but need to Google everything else", which I'm super comfortable with, in all honesty. The only thing I really want out of a GUI is a visual diff/comparison tool before pushes. Does anyone have any recommendations for something along these lines?
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#18What's the difference between this and existing GitHub clients?
I assume that it's using Electron.
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#19Just signed up. My git functionality is at a level of "can do all of the basic jank easily but need to Google everything else", which I'm super comfortable with, in all honesty. The only thing I really want out of a GUI is a visual diff/comparison tool before pushes. Does anyone have any recommendations for something along these lines?
Sourcetree's not bad.
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#20Just signed up. My git functionality is at a level of "can do all of the basic jank easily but need to Google everything else", which I'm super comfortable with, in all honesty. The only thing I really want out of a GUI is a visual diff/comparison tool before pushes. Does anyone have any recommendations for something along these lines?
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.