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Re: GitHub for Mac

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Post by StrawberryFrog »

fanf2 wrote: post #209
StrawberryFrog wrote: post #202

I don't get it. If I made a windows desktop client for a popular website, would anyone at all even care? Github (the website ) is great, it works well. The thinking that a website is a poor substitute for a native app is increasingly outdated. Github is an example of this, it does a lot on the web. What extra does this app bring to the table? What does it make possible or easier that I can't do on the website or in T…

It's an offline GUI for local git repositories.

So, just like Tortoisegit?

I'm still not getting the Unique Selling Point. Or is this just a case of the intersection of Github fanboys and Mac fanboys? Once both of those factors are removed, I'm not seeing the magic.

Re: GitHub for Mac

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Post by joshuacc »

smhinsey wrote: post #154
joshuacc wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the tip. I will check it out.

Git Extensions is not bad either, although I'm not using the VS addins. The GUI is nice for visualizing histories and things like that.

Thanks for this. Git Extensions is the most promising of the GUIs I've looked at thus far.

Re: GitHub for Mac

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Post by rmc »

eddieplan9 wrote: post #89
rjh29 wrote: post #69

I'm sorry, but in the world of awesomely-licensed Qt and other cross-platform toolkits, why would you go out of your way to build a native app on Mac libraries and only release it for a single platform? I can understand that OS X probably has the biggest share of GitHub visitors, but git is fully open source, GitHub seem to very much like open source, and in the spirit of that I'd expect a native app that works on as…

a native app that works on as many platforms as possible The definition of native app has changed. It's no longer a synonym for compiled binary; or using native widget. It is not as simple as coding your UI in a cross-platform toolkit. In these days, a native app means something that feels like the built-in apps: it's beyond skinning and appearance and is more about how the app as a whole interacts with the user to g…

The narrowing is almost due to web apps being much more full featured. Web apps are the cross platform write once applications we were promised.

Re: GitHub for Mac

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Post by sunchild »

sunchild wrote: post #64
beaumartinez wrote: post #33

I wonder why they've released a client for OS X and not another OS―if anything, Windows is pretty lacking in git love. Whose is its target audience and the desired function? New users, to reel them in with a shiny UI? Or established users who don't use it much, to make the experience simpler? (And if it's established users who use it much―isn't the command-line faster for them?) If they want more users to use GitHub,…

Perhaps because it's easier to develop something like this for OS X?

Apparently not! http://warpspire.com/posts/designing-github-mac/
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