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Very well done. ClickOnce installer; solid UI (rare on Windows, I've found), and even installs git hooks into PowerShell so there's no need to dump the user int
by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
Very well done. ClickOnce installer; solid UI (rare on Windows, I've found), and even installs git hooks into PowerShell so there's no need to dump the user into bash (unless they want it).
One downside, not entirely obvious how one's supposed to clone a repo with this?
- tylermenezes 14y agoHover over the name of the repo and you'll see a clone button.
- ineedtosleep 14y agoTo be fair, the GitHub for Windows UI looks a lot like the Zune UI, which has been around for a while now. I've not been able to try it yet on my Windows machines, but the screens I've seen look like they borrowed heavily from what Zune had.
- generalk 14y agoGitHub for Mac borrows from a lot of good Mac UIs, and it looks like GitHub for Windows does the same from good Windows UIs. Frankly I find this refreshing. I'm tired of applications that build their own interaction layer and then implement that across every platform regardless of that platform's idioms. Or, even worse: Air apps.
- elitrium 14y agoI don't think this is always such a good thing. http://artificialized.com/2012/05/github-for-windows/ http://artificialized.com/2012/05/github-for-windows/
- jamesgeck0 14y agoIt's designed to look like Metro, the style Microsoft is adopting for Windows 8. Zune was an early iteration of Metro.
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