Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop

Re:Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop by jmduke on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @02:08PM (#9813911)

Just signed up. My git functionality is at a level of "can do all of the basic jank easily but need to Google everything else", which I'm super comfortable with, in all honesty.

The only thing I really want out of a GUI is a visual diff/comparison tool before pushes. Does anyone have any recommendations for something along these lines?

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Re:Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop by mklim on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @02:13PM (#9813954)

Source Tree (https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/) is great. Good visual layout of your diffs at any given point with the ability to stage/discard/unstage specific lines from within the program.

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Re:Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop by malnourish on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @02:33PM (#9814112)

In my experience Source Tree is good but it happens to have noticeable slowdown and "jank" on both OS X and Windows after a while.

On OS X I've been using Tower to great effect. Unfortunately it's OS X only.

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Re:Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop by jamesfmilne on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @04:22PM (#9814874)

I've found Tower to be very sluggish on a large repository on OS X, where as Source Tree keeps on trucking.

Our repo is 4GB and has about 1 million commits.

Source Tree is the only client on Mac I've found so far that doesn't completely grind to a halt on a repository of this size.

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Re:Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop by dogweather on Thursday July 02, 2015 @03:08PM (#9820939)

For me, Source Tree is very unusable and doesn't make any sense. Maybe I'm approaching it wrong?

It feels like there wasn't much thought about user stories and ux: every git operation was given a button or menu item. Sort of the MS Word phenomenon. Their screenshot on its home page is overwhelming, just like the design of their apps: a hundred items all vying for your attention.

In contrast, GitHub's app for Mac is immediately useful: it makes the 80/20 of git work easy.

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Re:Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop by jglovier on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @03:00PM (#9814317)

While you're waiting for access to the Desktop preview, check out the current GitHub for Mac (https://mac.github.com/) and GitHub for Windows (https://windows.github.com/). I use GHfM everyday in tandem with CLI, and the basic visual diffing is great.

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Re:Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop by dogweather on Thursday July 02, 2015 @03:11PM (#9820956)

GitHub for Mac is awesome; I depend on it for my work along with gitsh for certain tasks.

But when installing it on a fresh machine the other day, I couldn't find a link to it from the GitHub site (as a longged in user). I needed to go back out to Google to get the URL. Made me wonder if it's going to be dropped or unsupported.

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Re:Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop by aaronbrethorst on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @02:12PM (#9813949)

Sourcetree's not bad.

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Re:Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop by dabeeeenster on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @02:10PM (#9813930)

https://mac.github.com/ ?

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