Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac • Hacker News Board

Re: Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 7:21 AM UTC

nicky0 wrote: post #33

mullsork wrote: post #2

This looks sweet! I use git quite lightly right now as I'm currently the only developer on my project. Gitup.co is the benchmark of Git apps for me right now. I barely need anything more than it and it's so incredibly light feeling. Like the app goes out of the way so that I can do what I need, such as reviewing lines to be staged. It hasn't been receiving many updates unfortunately. I'm happy that another app has po…

Another gitup user here. What kind of updates were you hoping for? Seems pretty solid to me.

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Re: Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 7:49 AM UTC

kylecordes wrote: post #12

I wish someone would maintain a list of all current (and past, abandoned) Git UIs, including a feature grid. This would both help the community using them, and help people who think "oh, I'll write a Git UI!".

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Re: Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

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Post by allenbrunson » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 8:46 AM UTC

yeskia wrote: post #76

allenbrunson wrote: post #17

i have been using GitBox ( http://gitboxapp.com ) for quite awhile now, but it seems like it doesn't get much in the way of updates, so i tried this. Very first thing it does is write a file called "gitclient.log" to my home directory. i deleted it, and it came back the next time i started the app. I see nothing in the prefs that allows you to move the file somewhere else. call me picky, but this is is a deal-breaker…

Does GitBox still work without issues for you? About 3 months ago it just stopped working completely on two separate machines, could never get it to work again. Had to switch to Tower instead.

yes, i still use gitbox every day. no problems i can think of.

Re: Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

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Post by BJanecke » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 8:58 AM UTC

This is awesome, and might actually finally replace GITX for me.

Needs a CLI to open repos with.

For now I'm using echo /Applications/Fork.app/Contents/MacOS/Fork > /usr/local/bin/fork && CHMOD +x /usr/local/bin/fork

which is not super ideal

*edit - typo

Re: Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

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Post by pointnova » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 9:34 AM UTC

bdcravens wrote: post #27

I'm a Tower user, not really seeing a compelling differentiator here (tabs look interesting however), but perhaps someone is seeing something I'm not.

tabs are coming to Tower very soon. They are already part of the 2.5 beta :)

Re: Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

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Post by enricosada » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 9:46 AM UTC

i'd like to add Git Extensions ( https://gitextensions.github.io/ ) to the list. Open source, free, and with lots of features and plugin

Re: Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

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Post by kls » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 11:30 AM UTC

BerislavLopac wrote: post #58

dougmccune wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I sort of wondered about that thinking maybe there's only one logical way to design a git GUI on osx, but then even within this thread people brought up a few other examples that look totally different: http://gitup.co/ http://gitboxapp.com/ But I do agree there are lots of very similar UIs for various git GUIs. And I'm sure SourceTree borrowed lots of their layout from others as well.

https://www.gitkraken.com/ is also different.

I switched from SourceTree to GitKraken, I don't know all the internal issues of what transpired at Atlasian on the SourceTree team, but to me it's just not the same product that the old Mac app was when they where independent.

I really like GitKraken and the team is taking feedback applying it constructively and putting out an impressive product. The part I really like is it's the same app on OSX, Linux and Windows using Electron to build it was a smart move on their part. My favorite feature has to be dropping a branch on another branch to create a pull request. I don't fanboy stuff much these days but I am a pretty big fan of their's right now.

Re: Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

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Post by kls » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 11:35 AM UTC

iLoch wrote: post #82

idlemind wrote: post #79

I'm surprised no one has mentioned GitKraken yet (gitkraken.com). Cross-platform and beautiful. Edit: oh and free!

And super slow and lacking basic GUI functionality like multiple file selection and individual line staging.

It has had both for several releases now.

Re: Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

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Post by tom4000 » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 2:30 PM UTC

Git itself is Free And Open Source; so I just use Free And Open Sourced clients for.

Re: Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

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Post by mcrider » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 4:43 PM UTC

BJanecke wrote: post #94

This is awesome, and might actually finally replace GITX for me. Needs a CLI to open repos with. For now I'm using echo /Applications/Fork.app/Contents/MacOS/Fork > /usr/local/bin/fork && CHMOD +x /usr/local/bin/fork which is not super ideal *edit - typo

Same boat. Everything beyond GitX has too much clutter.. This is basically Gitx with tabs which is all I ever wanted :)