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Gitbox 1.0 released: a version control app for Mac

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Re: Gitbox 1.0 released: a version control app for Mac

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Post by itsnotvalid »

Command line version suits me well. If I need xcode integration, I can use xcode 4 preview, which has merging tools and code comparison boiled in.

By the way the site talks about a discount until Dec 1, I guess I'd skip that discount no matter what, as others mentioned a tool called Git Tower which seems to have a pleaser UI.

Some sites also suggested another open sourced Git UI called Gity http://gngrwzrd.com/ other than GitX which to me is just another blend of git-gui. In the OSS part Gitnub (https://github.com/Caged/gitnub) is a UI for Github and Git in general, but this one is not pure Cocoa (requires RubyCocoa.

Re: Gitbox 1.0 released: a version control app for Mac

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Post by JonnieCache »

Obviously the command line version is going to suit most people here better. That is completely missing the point.

This will be perfect for those of us who work in teams with less technical people who still need r/w access to repositories. This will save us from training the designer and manager types in our organisations to use the command line tools, and as such will pay for itself.

Re: Gitbox 1.0 released: a version control app for Mac

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Post by dabeeeenster »

oleganza wrote: post #8
dabeeeenster wrote: post #2

65 MB? For a git browser? Really?

First, it is not a browser. You actually do commits, merges and manipulate branches. The size is that big because Gitbox is bundled with official Git binaries so you don't have to install anything else. I will see how to bring the size down in the next versions. Anyway, this fact does not affect the performance and does not eat much memory.

Thanks for the reply - I'm always suspicious of large binaries with OSX!

Re: Gitbox 1.0 released: a version control app for Mac

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Post by JonnieCache »

SandB0x wrote: post #14

The tagline seems quite negative: "Linus made Git for himself. Gitbox brings Git to everyone." Without Linus' free creation this app wouldn't exist at all.

Linus did make git literally for himself, and by extension the kernel community. If you look at his quote about the name "Git," I think it portrays accurately the wry attitude of mock-antagonism linus feels around git:

"I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git." - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Git_(software...

Re: Gitbox 1.0 released: a version control app for Mac

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Post by oleganza »

to wrote: post #9
microtonal wrote: post #5

No Github integration, and does not seem to provide much over GitX. At the very least, GitX does have an inline diff viewer when you browse revisions. In Gitbox you have to click a modified file, and then it will launch FileMerge. Too uncomfortable.

agreed. i dont know why one would pay 40 bucks for an app that already exists for free.

Gitbox is superior to what you have today. Very common things like commiting and checking the status and log are much faster and cleaner than in the command line or GitX. It is easier to extract a file from history, compare and manage the branches. You also pay for a level of attention to details in Gitbox, I explain it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1944698

Re: Gitbox 1.0 released: a version control app for Mac

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Post by masklinn »

js4all wrote: post #25

Git comes with a GUI tool. Run gitk to see commits, comments, history and diffs. I use it a lot and never needed another GUI tool. Anyway, great to see a new tool for devs who need more GUI support.

> Git comes with a GUI tool. Run gitk

You're not an OSX user are you?

Re: Gitbox 1.0 released: a version control app for Mac

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Post by frou_dh »

masklinn wrote: post #27
js4all wrote: post #25

Git comes with a GUI tool. Run gitk to see commits, comments, history and diffs. I use it a lot and never needed another GUI tool. Anyway, great to see a new tool for devs who need more GUI support.

> Git comes with a GUI tool. Run gitk You're not an OSX user are you?

As in OS X users are less tolerant of badly designed GUIs?

Re: Gitbox 1.0 released: a version control app for Mac

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Post by pornel »

oleganza wrote: post #8
dabeeeenster wrote: post #2

65 MB? For a git browser? Really?

First, it is not a browser. You actually do commits, merges and manipulate branches. The size is that big because Gitbox is bundled with official Git binaries so you don't have to install anything else. I will see how to bring the size down in the next versions. Anyway, this fact does not affect the performance and does not eat much memory.

git-osx-installer package takes 4.3MB, but your git.bundle takes 150MB.

The problem is that the bundle contains exactly same binary 104 times (git, git-add, git-apply, etc. are identical files, 1.3MB each). These should be symlinks.

It might be ZIP's fault (doesn't support symlinks AFAIK). I distribute my apps as tar.bz2, and nobody complained yet.

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