Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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Post by johdirr » Tue, May 16, 2017, 5:10 PM UTC

Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom
blog.atom.io

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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Post by niftich » Tue, May 16, 2017, 5:30 PM UTC

This looks like it's going to be neat! But why does it come bundled by default [1], instead of an optional package?

[1] https://atom.io/packages/github

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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Post by hdhzy » Tue, May 16, 2017, 5:32 PM UTC

niftich wrote: post #2

This looks like it's going to be neat! But why does it come bundled by default [1], instead of an optional package? [1] https://atom.io/packages/github

Because Atom was created by Github I persume.

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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Post by fergyfresh » Tue, May 16, 2017, 5:32 PM UTC

niftich wrote: post #2

This looks like it's going to be neat! But why does it come bundled by default [1], instead of an optional package? [1] https://atom.io/packages/github

Many of these features already exist as an optional package.

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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Post by heygrady » Tue, May 16, 2017, 5:41 PM UTC

Bundling these features by default is bad for Atom. It changes Atom from an editor to an advertisement. Maybe Github dwarfs the competition but boxing them out of the editor is unnecessary. This smells like bundling IE with Windows 98.

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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Post by tschellenbach » Tue, May 16, 2017, 5:43 PM UTC

heygrady wrote: post #5

Bundling these features by default is bad for Atom. It changes Atom from an editor to an advertisement. Maybe Github dwarfs the competition but boxing them out of the editor is unnecessary. This smells like bundling IE with Windows 98.

On the other hand this will Github an incentive to keep on improving Atom. Maybe someone has finally figured out how to monetize an editor. I hope so, cause the current ecosystem of editors is a mess of half baked solutions.

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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Post by deckar01 » Tue, May 16, 2017, 5:48 PM UTC

I might just have to fork this and wire it up to the GitLab API...

https://github.com/LestaD/atom-gitlab/issues/8

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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Post by bswinnerton » Tue, May 16, 2017, 5:56 PM UTC

deckar01 wrote: post #7

I might just have to fork this and wire it up to the GitLab API... https://github.com/LestaD/atom-gitlab/issues/8

For what it's worth the plugin is using GitHub's GraphQL API.

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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Post by hoschicz » Tue, May 16, 2017, 5:57 PM UTC

heygrady wrote: post #5

Bundling these features by default is bad for Atom. It changes Atom from an editor to an advertisement. Maybe Github dwarfs the competition but boxing them out of the editor is unnecessary. This smells like bundling IE with Windows 98.

I find bundling Git support with Atom is a requirement, VSCode does it.

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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Post by Analemma_ » Tue, May 16, 2017, 5:58 PM UTC

heygrady wrote: post #5

Bundling these features by default is bad for Atom. It changes Atom from an editor to an advertisement. Maybe Github dwarfs the competition but boxing them out of the editor is unnecessary. This smells like bundling IE with Windows 98.

It's a tricky question. Visual Studio Code (probably Atom's chief rival at the moment) has git support right out of the box, so there's a plausible argument that it's a must-have feature. GitHub is less clear.