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Thats about all Atlassian is good at. HipChat has become an abomination of a client across Windows and Mac. Every new release is about fixing functionality they
by Gelob 10y ago
Thats about all Atlassian is good at. HipChat has become an abomination of a client across Windows and Mac. Every new release is about fixing functionality they broke with the previous release and even then it still isn't fixed.
Logging in from multiple places has always been terrible. I'll be logged in on Mac and available but randomly get emails as if I'm offline. I'll be online on my phone and get e-mails. I wan't emails of messages when I'm actually offline and not logged in but HipChat doesn't seem to care and emails me anyways sometimes. The option to turn off email notifications isn't very configurable either. Its off or on.
Look at the release notes for windows and mac and search for reconnection. Just about every release has a fix for reconnecting going back to 2014.
https://www.hipchat.com/release_notes/mac https://www.hipchat.com/release_notes/mac
https://www.hipchat.com/release_notes/windows https://www.hipchat.com/release_notes/windows
- chinhodado 10y agoAnd don't even get me started on SourceTree. Just about every release since 1.5.2 is a disaster, to the point of almost non-usable right now.
- st3v3r 10y agoLike what? SourceTree works just about perfectly for me.
- edraferi 10y agoReally? I'm pretty happy with it. Definitely better than Github desktop, and more full featured than the light git extensions you find in most editors. What Git GUI do you prefer?
- SippinLean 10y agoGitKraken looks promising, and introduces some new UI concepts (drag and drop merging, for example). It's still fairly young but could be a competitor.
- weaksauce 10y agoIf you can hang with it being in emacs, magit is phenomenal and makes a lot of the harder things (rebase, conflict resolution, etc.) in git easier. Lightning talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ccCNQaTJ10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ccCNQaTJ10 also, if you are a vimmer use spacemacs to get out of the box, nicely configured vim.
- josho 10y agoGitup for the Mac http://gitup.co http://gitup.co Definitely my favourite client, and OSS to boot. I can't really think of much I'd want changed to improve it.
- machiaweliczny 10y agoGitup.co is nice
- skinnymuch 10y agoThanks for this. Apparently I have the Github repo starred but missed out using it. The features look impressive.
- supergreg 10y agoCheckout gitkraken. Really easy to use. Cleaner interface than sourcetree with almost all the features.
- bacongobbler 10y agotig. It's been under active development for over 10 years now. https://github.com/jonas/tig https://github.com/jonas/tig
- axtscz 10y agoGitkraken is amazing
- cyberferret 10y agoExcept that they have recently done an about turn on their licensing, and what used to be a FREE product is now a charge for product. No problems with paying for a product, but the way they went about the switch left a sour taste, so I went back to SourceTree.
- axtscz 10y agoFair enough, I'm only using it for personal projects, so I can see how that'd be annoying.
- tedmiston 10y ago> Definitely better than Github desktop Not really a fair comparison: SourceTree targets professional devs while GitHub Desktop caters to making git + GitHub simple for beginners. I like the client personally, but it isn't a daily driver. Beyond absolute basics the feature set is totally different.
- jonno123 10y agoI'm a big fan of SmartGit http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/ http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/
- nurettin 10y ago+1 Smartgit's community edition is fully functional.
- jonno123 10y agoI'm a big fan of SmartGit http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/ http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/
- dabernathy89 10y agoI've been pretty happy with SourceTree. I wouldn't call myself a power user, though. EDIT: now that I think about it, there are a few buggy things about it that are frequent but are just an annoyance, not a hindrance.
- thijsvandien 10y agoIn case you missed it, Tower (https://www.git-tower.com https://www.git-tower.com – not affiliated) recently got a Windows version. It doesn't have the same level of quality as the Mac version yet (which I've been using for years) but it's improving rapidly and I expect it to be production ready within a couple of months. It's taking relatively long to port because thankfully it is made a native Windows application. Not free, but well worth the money.
- tobidobi 10y agoTobias here from the Tower team! I'd like to confirm your assumption: we're indeed working full-steam on improving Tower for Windows (and Mac, of course ;-) We have quite some exciting features and additions on the roadmap!
- Vinkekatten 10y agoCool, thanks for the tip. I've been eyeing Tower for a long time, but us being a windows/linux shop it's not been a contender until now.
- canistr 10y agoI like Tower on macOS, but version 2 is significantly worse than version 1. UI/UX and the number of bugs has been a major pain-point that has made me consider switching to SourceTree. But I still haven't gotten use to SourceTree and GitHub Desktop isn't a great client either as a substitute.
- tedmiston 10y agoThe only major bug I've experienced in Tower v2 is related to renaming repos. That part's very broken, but besides that it's been great for me.
- gurkendoktor 10y agoStaging, unstaging, and discarding line-by-line has been extremely flaky for me in v1 and v2. Often discarding a deleted line will insert the line in a completely unrelated part of the file, so instead of a deletion, you now have a deletion and an addition. And so on. In combination with GitUp, it's still a great tool, but it could need better QA so that even edge cases are solid.
- mistersquid 10y agoThis is different than my experience of Tower and Tower 2. I frequently pick through dozens of lines of code for a granular commit history, sometimes backing up a commit, saving a commit as a patch, (then) amending some lines to a previous commit, staging/unstaging non-consecutive additions and deletions, etc. and I've not experienced problems. Renaming repos is straightforward but doing so does not rename the directory in the filesystem. It only renames it in the Tower UI. To rename the repo root directory, one should copy the origin root directory naming it to the new name and then run git init --bare name_of_directory to create a new repo. The only trouble I've experienced is deleting branches and tags from Github. Not sure if it's Github or Tower, but deleting those items and then recreating them often yields an error that the item still exists. (In my defense, the process established at work requires a deploy of a tag to STG once every 2 weeks, but the tag must be deployed to STG every week, leading to a situation where the STG tag must be deleted and recreated. Come to think of it, I'm going to suggest we change our process.) I'm not affiliated with Tower except as a satisfied user. EDIT: grammar, formatting, readability.
- brusch64 10y agoA Mac user said it should be quite good on OS X, but it sucks on Windows. It is incredible slow for many operations. My solution is to use command line git for most operations and SourceTree just for visualizing the repository. It's pretty fine for this.
- Spoom 10y agoHipChat has become an abomination of a client across Windows and Mac. Ha, try using it in Linux!