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Show HN: Disco – Easy GitHub Browsing

41 points by cjwoodward 12y ago

Disco is tiny app I built over the weekend to try and make browsing git better. Inspired heavily by Tower, it also adds pull request integration and is run in the browser. It's only for public repositories. Checkout: http://disco.88cartell.com/#/rails/rails http://disco.88cartell.com/#/emberjs/ember.js http://disco.88cartell.com/#/angular/angular.js

shk 12y ago
I like the interface. Couple things, * add browsing by arrow keys (down for going to next commit etc.) * Clicking on the modified file took me to github, I expected it to drop down like clicking on the black arrow. Better provide a separate link to take the user to github imo.
tilt 12y ago
Clickables http://disco.88cartell.com/#/rails/rails http://disco.88cartell.com/#/rails/rails http://disco.88cartell.com/#/emberjs/ember.js http://disco.88cartell.com/#/emberjs/ember.js http://disco.88cartell.com/#/angular/angular.js http://disco.88cartell.com/#/angular/angular.js
imslavko 12y ago
Looks like you are fetching only first 25 branches or so? The project I work on has a lot of unmerged branches (some of them are old experiments nobody deletes) and `master` is not even in the list :)
stefanooldeman 12y ago
just fyi, there is an open source projects called disco: https://github.com/discoproject/disco/ https://github.com/discoproject/disco/ http://disco.88cartell.com/#/discoproject/disco http://disco.88cartell.com/#/discoproject/disco
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cvan 12y ago
Nice concept :) Agree with shk re: keyboard navigation. Also, images don't seem to be working in diffs.
thejosh 12y ago
Can see the inspiration from the git gui clients (you said Tower, which is probably the same as git-cola), which is fantastic. This looks great. edit. If there is no master, and only one branch, is it possible to go to that branch? Is it also possible to hide merges? Is it also opensource?
- cjwoodward 12y ago
  Hi, it is open source. https://github.com/carlwoodward/disco https://github.com/carlwoodward/disco
IbJacked 12y ago
It'd be cool if it could store the repo's files in localstorage so I could load it up before I get on a plane, or if I'm saving battery life by disabling the radios. Perhaps a totally different use case than your target audience, I don't know. There's an iOS App named NapCat that will pull down repos so you can browse the code at your leisure. Doesn't let you view commits and the file diffs, like you can with Disco. In my mind: Disco for keeping up with what's happening and what files they happened to; NapCat for reading source for those times when the pleasure of a little light reading is in order :)
- ayrx 12y ago
  > It'd be cool if it could store the repo's files in localstorage so I could load it up before I get on a plane, or if I'm saving battery life by disabling the radios. Perhaps a totally different use case than your target audience, I don't know. `git clone`?

41 points by cjwoodward 12y ago

shk 12y ago

I like the interface. Couple things, * add browsing by arrow keys (down for going to next commit etc.) * Clicking on the modified file took me to github, I expected it to drop down like clicking on the black arrow. Better provide a separate link to take the user to github imo.

tilt 12y ago

Clickables http://disco.88cartell.com/#/rails/rails http://disco.88cartell.com/#/rails/rails http://disco.88cartell.com/#/emberjs/ember.js http://disco.88cartell.com/#/emberjs/ember.js http://disco.88cartell.com/#/angular/angular.js http://disco.88cartell.com/#/angular/angular.js

imslavko 12y ago

Looks like you are fetching only first 25 branches or so? The project I work on has a lot of unmerged branches (some of them are old experiments nobody deletes) and `master` is not even in the list :)

stefanooldeman 12y ago

just fyi, there is an open source projects called disco: https://github.com/discoproject/disco/ https://github.com/discoproject/disco/ http://disco.88cartell.com/#/discoproject/disco http://disco.88cartell.com/#/discoproject/disco

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cvan 12y ago

Nice concept :) Agree with shk re: keyboard navigation. Also, images don't seem to be working in diffs.

thejosh 12y ago

Can see the inspiration from the git gui clients (you said Tower, which is probably the same as git-cola), which is fantastic. This looks great. edit. If there is no master, and only one branch, is it possible to go to that branch? Is it also possible to hide merges? Is it also opensource?

cjwoodward 12y ago
Hi, it is open source. https://github.com/carlwoodward/disco https://github.com/carlwoodward/disco

IbJacked 12y ago

It'd be cool if it could store the repo's files in localstorage so I could load it up before I get on a plane, or if I'm saving battery life by disabling the radios. Perhaps a totally different use case than your target audience, I don't know. There's an iOS App named NapCat that will pull down repos so you can browse the code at your leisure. Doesn't let you view commits and the file diffs, like you can with Disco. In my mind: Disco for keeping up with what's happening and what files they happened to; NapCat for reading source for those times when the pleasure of a little light reading is in order :)

ayrx 12y ago
> It'd be cool if it could store the repo's files in localstorage so I could load it up before I get on a plane, or if I'm saving battery life by disabling the radios. Perhaps a totally different use case than your target audience, I don't know. `git clone`?