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Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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Post by consto »

jskinner wrote: post #2

Hi HN - Jon Skinner here, I made Sublime Text and Sublime Merge, alongside the rest of the Sublime HQ programming team - Will, Dylan and Benjamin. Let me know if you have any questions! Edit: there's also the announcement blog post, at https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-merge

Had a little play with it and it's looking really promising. I'm probably going to stick to the terminal for simpler stuff, but this tool will definitely help pry me away from Gitlab, and the merge conflict resolution feature looks so much better than my current workflow.

I have a question, or rather a request. As a long term Sublime Text user I like to hide the menu bar which you can't seem to do in Sublime Merge. Would you consider adding this in a future release?

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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Post by Serow225 »

Feedback: The first time I switched to the Search view, it was extremely non-intuitive how to get back to the main view. It took me a little bit to figure out that the main view is at Navigate>Go To Commit Changes. Maybe this selection could be moved below the divider so it's a little more obvious that it's related to the other options in that section? Or make the Search view an overlay kind of like Blame so there's a visual affordance suggesting what to click to back out of the view? It took me a good while to figure out that I could get from Search view back to Commit view by clicking on one of the Branches in the Location bar (and if you have that hidden then I don't think there's any GUI-click way to back out of Search view?). Hope this makes sense!

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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Post by jskinner »

consto wrote: post #41
jskinner wrote: post #2

Hi HN - Jon Skinner here, I made Sublime Text and Sublime Merge, alongside the rest of the Sublime HQ programming team - Will, Dylan and Benjamin. Let me know if you have any questions! Edit: there's also the announcement blog post, at https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-merge

Had a little play with it and it's looking really promising. I'm probably going to stick to the terminal for simpler stuff, but this tool will definitely help pry me away from Gitlab, and the merge conflict resolution feature looks so much better than my current workflow. I have a question, or rather a request. As a long term Sublime Text user I like to hide the menu bar which you can't seem to do in Sublime Merge. W…

Absolutely, I'll add it to the list.

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

#44

Post by [deleted] »

Serow225 wrote: post #42

Feedback: The first time I switched to the Search view, it was extremely non-intuitive how to get back to the main view. It took me a little bit to figure out that the main view is at Navigate>Go To Commit Changes. Maybe this selection could be moved below the divider so it's a little more obvious that it's related to the other options in that section? Or make the Search view an overlay kind of like Blame so there's…

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Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

#45

Post by klageveen »

adamlett wrote: post #36

For me the one and only GUI for Git, is GitUp: https://gitup.co .

GitUp is cool, I particularly love the graph view. It has almost no functionality though. You can't three-way-merge and resolve conflicts in it, nor browse the file tree for any given commit, nor compare any two commits.

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

#46

Post by jskinner »

Serow225 wrote: post #42

Feedback: The first time I switched to the Search view, it was extremely non-intuitive how to get back to the main view. It took me a little bit to figure out that the main view is at Navigate>Go To Commit Changes. Maybe this selection could be moved below the divider so it's a little more obvious that it's related to the other options in that section? Or make the Search view an overlay kind of like Blame so there's…

FWIW you can also press the Search icon/key binding again to get out of it, or use the Back button on the toolbar. I agree that it's not at all obvious from a visual point view - I'll see what we can do.

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

#47

Post by skrebbel »

jgresty wrote: post #23

> "The evaluation version is fully functional, but is restricted to the light theme only." They really know their target audience.

Also I think they learned a lesson from how many people simply grew a habit to click "cancel" in the "please buy this" reminder in Sublime Text.

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

#48

Post by francislavoie »

skrebbel wrote: post #31

My first impression is extremely positive. Many actions, particularly the kinds of actions that a UI can really help with, are unnecessarily hard in other UIs I've used. Eg most UIs have a good File History window, but often finding the appropriate file is a lot of work (and by often I mean at least SourceTree, GitKraken and GitExtensions iirc). Eg something like you need to scroll through commits until you found one…

You can do that in GitKraken too btw, jump to file with Ctrl+P, "hist[enter]myfile[enter]". Or click on any recent commit, on the changes pane click "view all files" and you can jump to whatever file you want and see full history with right-click file history.

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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Post by hawski »

Looks good. I like how most buttons have text labels instead those dreadful indecipherable icons that are so popular currently. In a way it looks like a successful mix of git-gui effortlessness with no nonsense gitk. I hate all those clients that have to grind all the time through their leaky abstractions.

However I'm still waiting for a client with graphical presentation and manipulation of git's DAG. Other than that I get by with CLI, git-gui (I would only wish to be able to edit files in it sometimes) and gitk.

Re: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

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Post by francislavoie »

wingerlang wrote: post #20

Feedback: - I would be nice to be able to remove the name inside the commit log. It's only me on this project and literally 50% of the lines (ever other) is my name. - I would also like to have the option to split top/bottom like sourcetree, so that I can read the full commit message easier. - The 'end of list' looks like a loading indicator - 'Staging lines' only appear when I select something on the line (even one…

I think GitKraken does the user indicator best by using gravatar icons for each commit node on the graph. Much more compact way to show who's who. Can get confusing in very active repos but it's better than too much text on the screen
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