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> On the other hand, maybe we should make designers want to use Git. I use Git, and its a wonderful piece of software craft indeed, but it does not have Window
by random42 16y ago
> On the other hand, maybe we should make designers want to use Git.
I use Git, and its a wonderful piece of software craft indeed, but it does not have Windows/Mac clients, that designers often use, as their base OS.
A decent usable frontend for Git, on platforms other than Linux too, needs to be developed, for it to be usable by designers.
Edit - I meant to say officially supported frontend and support for other oses by git.
- tvon 16y agoRelevant Stack Overflow question on GUI git clients: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/455698/best-visual-client-for-git-on-mac-os-x http://stackoverflow.com/questions/455698/best-visual-client...
- vog 16y ago> Git [...] does not have Windows/Mac clients Since the target group were designers, the presenter used a Mac, and tried to do everything using a GUI client for Git. I don't remember which one he used, but it ran natively on the Mac and it looked quite nice. (Still, the presenter sometimes struggled with that GUI. He was obviously more used to the command line.)
- jackolas 16y agoMost git actions don't need a deep understanding of Git nor a full GUI to function. I think git gui and gitx probably are enough to get a designer going.
- josegonzalez 16y agoYou're quite wrong. GitX is available at https://github.com/brotherbard/gitx/downloads https://github.com/brotherbard/gitx/downloads (Get the experimental branch) Git Tower is available at http://www.git-tower.com/ http://www.git-tower.com/ Textmate has a GIT Bundle at https://github.com/jcf/git-tmbundle https://github.com/jcf/git-tmbundle (It's quite good, but maybe not for designers). And Giggle (http://live.gnome.org/giggle http://live.gnome.org/giggle). Windows is the only OS lacking a good client, but I use GitX for Mac every day, as do the less technical "devs" at our Startup.
- pnathan 16y agoYes, I just picked up git for Windows, and it is atrociously unusable. Brutally atrocious. It's not like Windows is a popular operating system - git shouldn't support it as a first-class citizen. ;)
- eps 16y agoCare to elaborate? I've been using the whatever default Windows port that is linked from Git's download page for several months bow and there is nothing atrocious about it. It works well and it does differ much from the Linux version. (edit) The command line version that is.
- pnathan 16y agoThe GUI is atrocious. I use the GUI for branch visualization, and, well, I had expected something far better. I use TortoiseHG and I expected parity.
- xiongchiamiov 16y agoMost people seem to say that it works just fine. In my limited experience, it was just like git on Linux. Given that git was created for hosting the Linux kernel, it should be obvious why it's not a first-class citizen.
- notJim 16y agogit gui works wells for me on Windows with msysgit. It's ugly, and there are a good number of small issues, but it definitely provides a reasonable user experience. And of course, the command line option through msysgit is great.
- oemera 16y agoGit was developed for improving Linux Kernel development. You see why they don't care about Windows, right?
- archivator 16y agoHmm, there does seem to be a tortoisegit project at http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ ..