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Hub: Wraps Git with extra features that make working with GitHub easier

98 points by loppers92 9y ago

codefined 9y ago
This doesn't seem to give me a single clue on what it does past the initial change of: hub clone rtomayko/tilt Am I missing something?
- GauntletWizard 9y ago
  Their webpage, https://hub.github.com/ https://hub.github.com/ , explains more. It includes the ability to work with github pull requests and issues from the command line, and a few nice aliases for opening up github pages in the browser. hub compare v0.9..v1.0
- Gaelan 9y ago
  hub pull-request hub fork # adds remote automatically hub create # create GH repo for this local repo And ability to use GH paths anywhere git takes a URL - clone (as you mentioned), remote add, submodules, etc.
  - alkonaut 9y ago
    That should be on the front page. Above the fold.
    - zimmund 9y ago
      A good thing about this (being an open source project) is that anyone can fix it and create a PR :D
tnorthcutt 9y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9616239 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9616239
lobster_johnson 9y ago
Very nice tool, I use it a lot. But I wish they would do releases more often. The last stable release was October 2016, and it's been actively developed since then. For example, the "release" command (which is great for using from a Makefile to do an automated release) has lots of functionality on master, but the current release only supports making new releases.
- voltagex_ 9y ago
  https://github.com/github/hub/releases https://github.com/github/hub/releases shows some pre releases. I suspect they'd be stable enough.
  - lobster_johnson 9y ago
    They're still old. Newest prerelease is from February.
    - voltagex_ 9y ago
      Ah, right. I may fork hub tonight and let Travis build a newer version.
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omarforgotpwd 9y ago
I use this as my default git command via aliasing, as mentioned in the ReadMe. Paste this in your bash profile to alias: eval "$(hub alias -s)"
- voltagex_ 9y ago
  Note that this does shell detection and works for most common shells, but your eval may be different. https://github.com/github/hub/blob/master/commands/alias.go#L55 https://github.com/github/hub/blob/master/commands/alias.go#...
lgierth 9y ago
I've been using hub to do update orchestration over a group of repos, i.e. bubbling up updates through a dependency tree, opening respective Pull Requests, linking them among each other, etc.
geerlingguy 9y ago
I've used hub for a few years, but I find the advice of replacing the 'git' command with 'hub' to be a bit over the top. Security/compatibility concerns aside, it can easily confuse non-experts as to what kind of CLI functionality git itself (vs hub/github) provides. It's often helpful to know what's actually happening... then add something like hub later as an optimization.
- Macha 9y ago
  This is a github project, that kind of confusion is to their benefit. People will complain about bitbucket/gitlab missing this functionality (but iirc, at least one of them has their own similar project)
- lloydde 9y ago
  Spot on. I'm also a long time user and also keep hub separate & like to understand when it's acting as straight pass through, enhancing the behavior or doing something that only makes sense in Github's implementation.
- timvdalen 9y ago
  I had git replaced with hub a few years back but hub was just way too slow starting up, killing what seemed like git performance.
  - johnny22 9y ago
    that's a huge reason why they rewrote it in Go
dwrench07 9y ago
Is this similar or how is different/better than gitflow? http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
- lauritzsh 9y ago
  gitflow is comparing OOP and FP. If git is C then hub is C++. I don't believe you can compare the two. hub just adds some convenient commands to git for working with GitHub.
- abritinthebay 9y ago
  Different use cases. Our companies fork of gitflow uses hub for example.
techman9 9y ago
Pretty essential if you're working on a project hosted on Github. I primarily use it to make PR's from the command line, but that alone is a huge win.
- pawadu 9y ago
  Maybe its just me, but I would rather have PR functionality in git itself. Linus, please make it happen :)
  - Sharlin 9y ago
    How would that work? Besides starting completely new centralized git service to compete with github and co? Anyway, git already has a "pull request" system in the form of git send-email and related commands.
    - abritinthebay 9y ago
      I know Linus probably would not agree but emails aren't a substitute for a pull request system: they're a bandaid to compensate for the lack of one. I agree it would require additions to git & some kinda of standard around it but it's telling that every major git system in use "solves" this problem.
    - pawadu 9y ago
      That system works for Linus since that is how he works. However, it doesn't seem to work for most other people. We need a system to do this in a standardized that works across service providers. I don't want to create a dummy github account only to submit a PR.
  - techman9 9y ago
    Git already has quasi-"pull request" functionality by a different name. It's possible to use https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull and an out of band communication tool (Email, Slack) to achieve the same basic functionality. Take a look at https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Contributing-to-a-Project https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Contributing-... for more info about the baked-in review and contributing tools.
weq 9y ago
but isnt git pretty much the best thing in the world since it was made by the who who remote linux? Why do u need sugar ontop of it? Oh wait, thats right, cause guys who make operating systems dont make human software.
- voltagex_ 9y ago
  I know I shouldn't reply to comments like this, but what are you going to do to make the (software) world better? Git's got warts but it's getting better, and there are alternatives like Mercurial if they work better for you.
  - weq 9y ago
    A comment that states the obvious? Im merely pointing out the power of the OSS hype-machine. Like it would make sense to me if everyone who used git also used VIM, but they dont. Its a testiment to the power of the flock, that a product which gets its core functionaly so wrong, be used by so many ppl. as for the topic at hand, if my company had invested so heavily into such a product, i would be doing everything in power to make it work. let alone if my companies core business was all in on it like github, it would be a no brainer and i cant beelive its taken so long to get the top of the backlog. looking forward to the nxt installment of hub which introduces propriority commands and see if they get treated like MS does :)
    - voltagex_ 9y ago
      It's all about the ROI for GitHub - git works well enough for them. If a problem in Git was causing a problem for GitHub I'm sure they'd work to fix it. Although I don't see any @github addresses in git's git.
      - OJFord 9y ago
        c.f. https://github.com/libgit2 https://github.com/libgit2
      - _ikke_ 9y ago
jepler 9y ago
Personally I'd rather see my github integration as a subcommand: 'git hub clone foo/bar', etc.
- Gaelan 9y ago
  You could put hub in /usr/local/bin/git-hub to accomplish that.
- stock_toaster 9y ago
  Should be easy enough to add an alias to $HOME/.gitconfig right? [alias] hub = !hub
  - gtklocker 9y ago
    Very nice!
- sigjuice 9y ago
  What does this buy you besides having to begin each command with four extra letters?
- OJFord 9y ago
  I'd always be accidentally typing 'github', and also putting spaces in the middle of the URL.
jonSson99 9y ago
does this help you move around Zenhub issues on your kanban from commit -m "?"
dmacedo 9y ago
I have used this extensively for interacting with Github. But definitely, my biggest use is for quickly creating new private repos in Github to save small experiments (doesn't require hub to be aliased to git): new => !git init && git commit --allow-empty -m 'Initial commit (empty)' && hub create -p `basename $PWD` For new projects (hope you can get the aliases): mkdir newproject && cd newproject g new # Do stuff, etc... gcia -m "Add project start" && gp
mbrookes 9y ago
It doesn't compare with hub, but I wrote gpr to make dealing with pull-requests easier as a maintainer. The main use case to check out a PR on a detached head: gpr <PR#> You can also easily checkout a branch from another users fork. https://github.com/mbrookes/git-pull-request https://github.com/mbrookes/git-pull-request

98 points by loppers92 9y ago

This doesn't seem to give me a single clue on what it does past the initial change of: hub clone rtomayko/tilt Am I missing something?

GauntletWizard 9y ago
Their webpage, https://hub.github.com/ https://hub.github.com/ , explains more. It includes the ability to work with github pull requests and issues from the command line, and a few nice aliases for opening up github pages in the browser. hub compare v0.9..v1.0
Gaelan 9y ago
hub pull-request hub fork # adds remote automatically hub create # create GH repo for this local repo And ability to use GH paths anywhere git takes a URL - clone (as you mentioned), remote add, submodules, etc.
- alkonaut 9y ago
  That should be on the front page. Above the fold.
  - zimmund 9y ago
    A good thing about this (being an open source project) is that anyone can fix it and create a PR :D

tnorthcutt 9y ago

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9616239 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9616239

lobster_johnson 9y ago

Very nice tool, I use it a lot. But I wish they would do releases more often. The last stable release was October 2016, and it's been actively developed since then. For example, the "release" command (which is great for using from a Makefile to do an automated release) has lots of functionality on master, but the current release only supports making new releases.

voltagex_ 9y ago
https://github.com/github/hub/releases https://github.com/github/hub/releases shows some pre releases. I suspect they'd be stable enough.
- lobster_johnson 9y ago
  They're still old. Newest prerelease is from February.
  - voltagex_ 9y ago
    Ah, right. I may fork hub tonight and let Travis build a newer version.

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omarforgotpwd 9y ago

I use this as my default git command via aliasing, as mentioned in the ReadMe. Paste this in your bash profile to alias: eval "$(hub alias -s)"

voltagex_ 9y ago
Note that this does shell detection and works for most common shells, but your eval may be different. https://github.com/github/hub/blob/master/commands/alias.go#L55 https://github.com/github/hub/blob/master/commands/alias.go#...

lgierth 9y ago

I've been using hub to do update orchestration over a group of repos, i.e. bubbling up updates through a dependency tree, opening respective Pull Requests, linking them among each other, etc.

geerlingguy 9y ago

I've used hub for a few years, but I find the advice of replacing the 'git' command with 'hub' to be a bit over the top. Security/compatibility concerns aside, it can easily confuse non-experts as to what kind of CLI functionality git itself (vs hub/github) provides. It's often helpful to know what's actually happening... then add something like hub later as an optimization.

Macha 9y ago
This is a github project, that kind of confusion is to their benefit. People will complain about bitbucket/gitlab missing this functionality (but iirc, at least one of them has their own similar project)
lloydde 9y ago
Spot on. I'm also a long time user and also keep hub separate & like to understand when it's acting as straight pass through, enhancing the behavior or doing something that only makes sense in Github's implementation.
timvdalen 9y ago
I had git replaced with hub a few years back but hub was just way too slow starting up, killing what seemed like git performance.
- johnny22 9y ago
  that's a huge reason why they rewrote it in Go

dwrench07 9y ago

Is this similar or how is different/better than gitflow? http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

lauritzsh 9y ago
gitflow is comparing OOP and FP. If git is C then hub is C++. I don't believe you can compare the two. hub just adds some convenient commands to git for working with GitHub.
abritinthebay 9y ago
Different use cases. Our companies fork of gitflow uses hub for example.

techman9 9y ago

Pretty essential if you're working on a project hosted on Github. I primarily use it to make PR's from the command line, but that alone is a huge win.

pawadu 9y ago
Maybe its just me, but I would rather have PR functionality in git itself. Linus, please make it happen :)
- Sharlin 9y ago
  How would that work? Besides starting completely new centralized git service to compete with github and co? Anyway, git already has a "pull request" system in the form of git send-email and related commands.
  - abritinthebay 9y ago
    I know Linus probably would not agree but emails aren't a substitute for a pull request system: they're a bandaid to compensate for the lack of one. I agree it would require additions to git & some kinda of standard around it but it's telling that every major git system in use "solves" this problem.
  - pawadu 9y ago
    That system works for Linus since that is how he works. However, it doesn't seem to work for most other people. We need a system to do this in a standardized that works across service providers. I don't want to create a dummy github account only to submit a PR.
- techman9 9y ago
  Git already has quasi-"pull request" functionality by a different name. It's possible to use https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull and an out of band communication tool (Email, Slack) to achieve the same basic functionality. Take a look at https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Contributing-to-a-Project https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Contributing-... for more info about the baked-in review and contributing tools.

weq 9y ago

but isnt git pretty much the best thing in the world since it was made by the who who remote linux? Why do u need sugar ontop of it? Oh wait, thats right, cause guys who make operating systems dont make human software.

voltagex_ 9y ago
I know I shouldn't reply to comments like this, but what are you going to do to make the (software) world better? Git's got warts but it's getting better, and there are alternatives like Mercurial if they work better for you.
- weq 9y ago
  A comment that states the obvious? Im merely pointing out the power of the OSS hype-machine. Like it would make sense to me if everyone who used git also used VIM, but they dont. Its a testiment to the power of the flock, that a product which gets its core functionaly so wrong, be used by so many ppl. as for the topic at hand, if my company had invested so heavily into such a product, i would be doing everything in power to make it work. let alone if my companies core business was all in on it like github, it would be a no brainer and i cant beelive its taken so long to get the top of the backlog. looking forward to the nxt installment of hub which introduces propriority commands and see if they get treated like MS does :)
  - voltagex_ 9y ago
    It's all about the ROI for GitHub - git works well enough for them. If a problem in Git was causing a problem for GitHub I'm sure they'd work to fix it. Although I don't see any @github addresses in git's git.
    - OJFord 9y ago
      c.f. https://github.com/libgit2 https://github.com/libgit2
    - _ikke_ 9y ago

jepler 9y ago

Personally I'd rather see my github integration as a subcommand: 'git hub clone foo/bar', etc.

Gaelan 9y ago
You could put hub in /usr/local/bin/git-hub to accomplish that.
stock_toaster 9y ago
Should be easy enough to add an alias to $HOME/.gitconfig right? [alias] hub = !hub
- gtklocker 9y ago
  Very nice!
sigjuice 9y ago
What does this buy you besides having to begin each command with four extra letters?
OJFord 9y ago
I'd always be accidentally typing 'github', and also putting spaces in the middle of the URL.

jonSson99 9y ago

does this help you move around Zenhub issues on your kanban from commit -m "?"

dmacedo 9y ago

I have used this extensively for interacting with Github. But definitely, my biggest use is for quickly creating new private repos in Github to save small experiments (doesn't require hub to be aliased to git): new => !git init && git commit --allow-empty -m 'Initial commit (empty)' && hub create -p `basename $PWD` For new projects (hope you can get the aliases): mkdir newproject && cd newproject g new # Do stuff, etc... gcia -m "Add project start" && gp

mbrookes 9y ago

It doesn't compare with hub, but I wrote gpr to make dealing with pull-requests easier as a maintainer. The main use case to check out a PR on a detached head: gpr <PR#> You can also easily checkout a branch from another users fork. https://github.com/mbrookes/git-pull-request https://github.com/mbrookes/git-pull-request