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Re:Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch o... by dgritsko on Thursday July 17, 2025 @12:26PM (#44595067)
This is awesome. A couple of suggestions:

- It'd be great to change the default branch used for creating new workspaces.

- I'd like the ability to add custom tools to the "Open in..." menu.

Re:Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch o... by Charlieholtz on Thursday July 17, 2025 @12:54PM (#44595418)
Ah yeah! Which IDE do you use?

> It'd be great to change the default branch used for creating new workspaces. Yeah you can actually change this now! If you click the repo name you can make changes to the "setup script". If you added `git checkout -b "branch name"` it would run that on every new workspace instance.

Re:Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch o... by dgritsko on Thursday July 17, 2025 @01:33PM (#44595860)
At the moment it's mostly Cursor or VS Code, but I was actually thinking of SourceTree. I'd like to look at the pending changes and manage the commits myself, and I could do that if I could add "open -a SourceTree ." as a custom command. I didn't see a place to edit a setup script, is that just on the filesystem?
Re:Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch o... by Charlieholtz on Thursday July 17, 2025 @02:09PM (#44596265)
Got it! If you click the repository name in the left sidebar, you should see a field for setup script.
Re:Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch o... by dgritsko on Thursday July 17, 2025 @02:59PM (#44596846)
FWIW, this is what I wound up with - keeps the original branch name but ensures that it's based on the latest from the "dev" branch:

orig_branch=$(git branch --show-current) && git checkout dev && git pull && git branch -D "$orig_branch" && git checkout -b "$orig_branch"

Re:Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch o... by dgritsko on Thursday July 17, 2025 @02:29PM (#44596499)
Ah, excellent - appreciate the help! I'm already getting a ton of value out of this tool, thanks for sharing!
Re:Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch o... by Charlieholtz on Thursday July 17, 2025 @04:32PM (#44597856)
wooo that's awesome to hear! keep the feedback coming!