FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

Re:FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro by BoorishBears on Thursday November 24, 2016 @05:18PM (#13033131)

No, OS X has Git, that's the equivalent. I actually don't know Free BSD well enough to say for BSD, but for Linux for example I'd say it's Sourcetree or SmartGit.

Your getting hung up on the Tower example, Tower is far from the only example of OS X applications having a smoother UI than nix. I always felt it comes down to a culture issue, nix users don't mind the lack of polished GUIs if there's a command line tool (which you're so continently demonstrating)

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Re:FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro by gurkendoktor on Thursday November 24, 2016 @06:52PM (#13033545)

I had always assumed that SourceTree was a portable Qt app (it looks like it, doesn't it?), but it's only available on macOS and Windows.

Tower and GitUp are a huge lock-in into macOS for me. Tower for line-by-line staging/discarding, GitUp for minor history fix-ups (editing a commit message without remembering the CLI command, etc.).

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Re:FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro by iamthad on Thursday November 24, 2016 @07:11PM (#13033628)

For what it's worth, git add, git checkout, and git reset all take the -p (or --patch) option, which allows selection of sub-sections of files to stage, discard, or unstage, respectively.

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