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Gitbox is 1 year old: status report
- mgkimsal 15y agoCongrats! I've told the devs at one of my clients to grab this and give it a try for $5. They're primarily tower users, but for $5 they should give gitbox a real spin (vs the trial version). Thanks for your work over the last year. I remember I sent you what I thought was an odd bug a year ago when I first got it during your discount period, and you replied back very quickly and dealt with my issue awesomely. I don't even remember the problem now, only the service :) Just upgrading to 1.5.2 this morning - looking forward to the new features in 1.5!
- RyanKearney 15y agoI prefer this free alternative: http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
- sirn 15y agoI really want to like Gitbox (wow, a Git GUI that don't try to put every Git command in its menu bar!) however I always feel its lacks of branch/commit graph make it "too simple" for a $40. For me commit visualization is possibly the only thing I'd ever want to use GUI client for, and lacking that make the app nearly useless for me.
- grk 15y agoIt looks great for browsing repos. However, to be really useful for me it would have to have something similar to gitx's commit view - show what's staged and what's not, show diffs, give the option to stage selected lines.
- oleganza 15y agoLine-by-line staging and built-in diff is planned in one of the next updates.
- joelhaasnoot 15y agoSo when are we going to get a good, affordable or free Windows Git client?
- frou_dh 15y agoWhen you write it
- mgkimsal 15y agoSounds like an opp for someone to build and market via the upcoming windows app store, no?
- trustfundbaby 15y agoTortoise git is really good http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/
- mweibel 15y agoHmm.. 5$ respectively 5 CHF? I want to try it but when I click on "Buy app" it tells me that the price is actually 20 CHF and not 5... Someone else with a similar problem?
- oleganza 15y agoGuys, sorry for some App Store error messages or incorrect pricing. Apple is propagating changes through their servers for an hour already. Please try to check it out again in an hour or so.
- thehodge 15y agoStill unable to buy, just an FYI :)
- oleganza 15y agoWhat store do you use? (UK?)
- Aqua_Geek 15y agoIt's currently not working in the US for me.
- darren_mowat 15y agoI'm in the UK and I still can't buy it.
- thehodge 15y agoI'm in the UK and can buy it as of 5 minutes ago
- darren_mowat 15y ago
- ciryx 15y agoWhile Gitbox obviously misses branch visualization and submodule handling it makes my daily git workflow so much better. I can only recommend it. Especially at this price point.
- oleganza 15y agoSubmodules' support is coming very soon. Multiple branches handling and tree visualization is coming next.
- lucian1900 15y agoGitbox looks really nice. Sadly, I'm not using Mac OS X? Any chance of a linux version, maybe via GNUStep/etoile?
- preek 15y agoWhat exactly does CMD+Z do for a push?
- oleganza 15y agoIt pushes previous commit ID into the remote branch.
- preek 15y agoIf it doesn't revert the last commit, what you say would be a forced push, correct?
- oleganza 15y agoYes, it's a force push. Useful when you accidentally pushed just a couple of seconds ago and want to undo. Of course, if people have already pulled it, they'll have to rebase or reset the branch later.
- tux1968 15y agoTeaching people to use Git incorrectly is a bad UI design decision.
- preek 15y agoSince I can't reply to your reply, I'm answering right here. Are you sure it's good practice to force other people to rebase, because you did a mistake? That's exactly what I was afraid of what CMD+Z did.
- oleganza 15y agoIf you are quick enough and project is small and everyone is in the same room (or it's just you with an iMac and laptop), it's very-very convenient. People who start using Git and/or using it as a sole committers value such convenience a lot.
- robterrell 15y agoDidn't know about gitbox, just bought it, well done. I can cross "make a simple, sane git GUI" off my 2012 to-do list. Not to obsess over details, but the window resizer draws over checkboxes. Would you consider adding a thin footer bar to the bottom of the window, like Safari, or reduce the width of the content pane, like Xcode?
- oleganza 15y agoThanks for suggestion. It's only an issue in Snow Leopard. However, I will add a bottom toolbar, but for other reasons.
- flyingyeti 15y agoI'd love to try it out, but I'm getting an error from the App Store currently: We could not complete your request. There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later. (100) Purchase of this item is not currently available. This item is being modified. Please try again later.
- roryokane 15y agoThis story’s link is to the general Gitbox blog. The actual post with that title is at http://blog.oleganza.com/post/13630966174/gitbox-is-1-year-old-status-report http://blog.oleganza.com/post/13630966174/gitbox-is-1-year-o....
- jcoby 15y agoI bought it but it triggers the discrete video card in my 2010 MBP whenever I view a change. That makes it impossible to keep running or it will drain my battery twice as fast. I do like the single view but it really needs to have the timeline.
- ConstantineXVI 15y agoIn my experience with other apps, I think the GPU behavior is an artifact of Core Animation (I definitely recall seeing this in Sparrow, at least). Bit weird that OSX would default to breaking out the GPU for the smallest UI effects, especially because of the effect on battery life.
- jcoby 15y agoYeah, and it's annoying that the discrete switch is kept until the app shuts down. I have no clue what Gitbox is doing on the change set viewer to trigger the switch. I didn't see any animations. Chrome also triggers the discrete GPU so I can't use it either. I'd really like to because of Safari's problems with the debug tools. I don't want to get used to Chrome when I can only realistically use it when on power.
- falling 15y agoTo everybody receiving an error purchasing the app: remove the copy you already have in /Applications/