What technology is it using that prevents it from being available on Linux? I don't like what is currently available.
What about Sublime Merge? I think its great, and works great for me on Linux
Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows
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Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't really understand the upside for them to include such toothless yet threatening clauses. It makes them seem a bit juvenile. Like when we had to come up with laws for our make-believe countries for a class project in middle school and we tried to cover our bases with rules like "if you're a bad person doing all bad stuff, you're not allowed to!"
It's pretty clear that those terms are all defined in the context of whatever they might mean under Czech law, which I am not familiar with. Also, those quotes are taken out of context for dramatic effect: You will not engage in using this Software that will interfere with or damage the operation of the services of any third parties by overburdening/disabling network resources through automated queries, excessive usa…
> You will not use this Software to engage in any activity that will violate the rights of third parties, including, without limitation, through the use, public display, public performance, reproduction, distribution, or modification of communications or materials that infringe copyrights... other proprietary rights...
OK, not allowed to use it for reverse engineering or other research the DMCA attempts to block?
Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whoops, that was pretty silly of me to miss the Czech. However I stand by my criticism that it is not possible to know if you are violating the license or not. I don’t want to have to learn and follow Czech law to use a git client. Why does this agreement cover how I use third party services and who defines what qualifies as interfering? How far does my obligation to not allow others to reverse engineer the applicati…
However I stand by my criticism that it is not possible to know if you are violating the license or not. I don’t want to have to learn and follow Czech law to use a git client. Surely this applies to anyone using a piece of US-made software living outside the US. And without a governing law clause, isn't it always ambiguous? Why does this agreement cover how I use third party services and who defines what qualifies a…
> Surely this applies to anyone using a piece of US-made software living outside the US. And without a governing law clause, isn't it always ambiguous?
I don't think most software licenses say you can't violate some country's laws while using it. It is already illegal to do the illegal thing.
> Who am I to judge. That's what they want.
I'm not judging either. I am not able to confidently follow these terms, so I won't use the software. No hard feelings.
I'm guessing that the license author's intention was to avoid legal liability for people doing illegal things with their software. Usually this is addressed with some language in the license about limitation of liability or or indemnification. For example, see section 3.8 of Atlassian's software agreement:
Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows
#154Interesting how similar it is to SourceTree, even down to having Custom Actions.
Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use a Git GUI, not because it's more efficient or because it enables better workflows, but it's more comfortable for me. - When I'm browsing the history, I can scroll up and down the list of commits and see the diff of each one by clicking on it. - When I'm cherry-picking a commit, I can just drag the commit onto the branch. - When I'm modifying a branch or a remote, I can right-click on it and go to Delete or Rena…
I concede the point on mouseability/clicking-and-dragging, but I respectfully disagree with your other points on what GUIs offer. Everything else you described is easily available via already-existing CLI wrappers for git. I described my workflow in another comment[0] here. It is incredibly easy to search for specific commits and branches with instant live-previews using tools like forgit, and these tools are only po…
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Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows
#156The whole, if the product is free you are the product etc. So, how is this free? It really does look amazing, which is probably why I wonder how it can be free.
Not everything aims to be a "product", I suppose.
Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows
#157I had Fork 1.0.19. Wasn't any good back then. Just reopened and updated it. Much better now!
Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows
#158I’ll compare Fork with GitUp (https://gitup.co) on macOS.
A big advantage of Fork is a better merging experience. Personally, I use GitUp in conjunction with CLI when I do rebases, which implies higher mental overhead.
Overall, Fork’s UI feels a fair bit slower to use compared to GitUp, both in terms of raw performance and design. For example, after selecting a commit, details take about half a second to load in the bottom pane, and expanding a diff from there takes a precision click. (The Changes subpane offers another diff view, but it requires to select a single changed file first and takes a half-second until file’s diff appears.)
GitUp is blazing-fast, has very focused UI, and further speeds up your workflow with well-thought keyboard shortcuts that cover pretty much all available functionality.
Platform integrations in Fork might make sense to someone, though to me it’s a concern. It supports GitHub and Bitbucket—what about Gitlab? Unless you monetize, I doubt you can integrate with everything, maintain each integration as their APIs evolve, and still spare enough effort on improving the core UI.
Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows
#159I’ll compare Fork with GitUp ( https://gitup.co ) on macOS. A big advantage of Fork is a better merging experience. Personally, I use GitUp in conjunction with CLI when I do rebases, which implies higher mental overhead. Overall, Fork’s UI feels a fair bit slower to use compared to GitUp, both in terms of raw performance and design. For example, after selecting a commit, details take about half a second to load in th…
Both seem to work pretty well, if only I could actually use them. My aging eyes just can't deal with all the gray text on a white background in Fork, or the tiny text in GitUp. Sigh!
Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows
#160I’ll compare Fork with GitUp ( https://gitup.co ) on macOS. A big advantage of Fork is a better merging experience. Personally, I use GitUp in conjunction with CLI when I do rebases, which implies higher mental overhead. Overall, Fork’s UI feels a fair bit slower to use compared to GitUp, both in terms of raw performance and design. For example, after selecting a commit, details take about half a second to load in th…
Both seem to work pretty well, if only I could actually use them. My aging eyes just can't deal with all the gray text on a white background in Fork, or the tiny text in GitUp. Sigh!
Someone is currently maintaining a fork of GitUp that adds a text size slider in preferences.
On the other hand, maintainer’s response is a bit disheartening suggesting they have not (yet) encountered the eyesight issue themselves.
See this feature request: https://github.com/git-up/GitUp/issues/470