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how is this better than github.com?

by tomschlick 12y ago

gkya 12y ago
It's not.
- gress 12y ago
  Have you tried it?
  - bracewel 12y ago
    OS X only...
  - gkya 12y ago
    No. Because, first, I'm a gnu/linux user nowadays, and second, even if I was a Mac user I would need more than 4 PNGs to convince me to use a software I encounter for the first time. edit: ...and, as the app for Github is not missing, the third reason for not using the app is that its web page is shamelessly lieing* . * One may well see this as «lying», but I reject to spell like that.
    - gress 12y ago
      Seems like you lied too, given that you simply don't know if there are any ways in which it is better than the github app.
      - gkya 12y ago
        It would be lieing if I told I used it and in respect to Github's own software, that being the website and/or the client application, I found it worse. But in my first comment, which is simply «It's not.», I cannot see any indications of such statement. And I back what I state with my actual comment. On the website there is no link to information about the application, no documentation, no videos, no blog posts, nothing. Instead, I, and the software's target audience, are users of the Github.com already, and we know how to use github.com already, there is a plethora of docs, wikis, blog posts, videos which help us on using it on the web. Plus, the software is a third-party client to a service that already offers an official client. Out of this situation, the most obvious inference is that sticking to the website and/or the official application is better that using the OP's linked one. No lieing here, just reasoning. If there was any sort of documentation or anything, a link to source on github, an end-user support possibility better than a twitter account that follows popular tech-news websites and tech celebs, I might have thought that it is promising and worth a try. But as it stands, no, it doesn't make me «step into the shop».
        gress 12y ago
        Nope. You made a statement you knew to be unsupported. Their lack of documentation doesn't change that at all. If you tried the app you would know that you are actually wrong.
- hobs 12y ago
  I havent tried the grandparent's software, but if I was going to use a native app I would probably try github's first. https://windows.github.com/ https://windows.github.com/ https://mac.github.com/ https://mac.github.com/ I have shown the windows version to a few people and they grokked git a lot better than if I tried via the standard toolkit.
  - ksherlock 12y ago
    Github's app lets you push and pull and do some minor work on your repositories. the Octohub app lets you search projects and stalk people.
    - hobs 12y ago
      Alrighty then, a much more social aspect. I stand corrected!
michaelmior 12y ago
I do like the idea of being able to tag repositories. This is something I wish GitHub would let me do.
- mackwic 12y ago
  Agreed, but still. I don't understand what this app exactly do.

how is this better than github.com?

gkya 12y ago

It's not.

gress 12y ago
Have you tried it?
- bracewel 12y ago
  OS X only...
- gkya 12y ago
  No. Because, first, I'm a gnu/linux user nowadays, and second, even if I was a Mac user I would need more than 4 PNGs to convince me to use a software I encounter for the first time. edit: ...and, as the app for Github is not missing, the third reason for not using the app is that its web page is shamelessly lieing* . * One may well see this as «lying», but I reject to spell like that.
  - gress 12y ago
    Seems like you lied too, given that you simply don't know if there are any ways in which it is better than the github app.
    - gkya 12y ago
      It would be lieing if I told I used it and in respect to Github's own software, that being the website and/or the client application, I found it worse. But in my first comment, which is simply «It's not.», I cannot see any indications of such statement. And I back what I state with my actual comment. On the website there is no link to information about the application, no documentation, no videos, no blog posts, nothing. Instead, I, and the software's target audience, are users of the Github.com already, and we know how to use github.com already, there is a plethora of docs, wikis, blog posts, videos which help us on using it on the web. Plus, the software is a third-party client to a service that already offers an official client. Out of this situation, the most obvious inference is that sticking to the website and/or the official application is better that using the OP's linked one. No lieing here, just reasoning. If there was any sort of documentation or anything, a link to source on github, an end-user support possibility better than a twitter account that follows popular tech-news websites and tech celebs, I might have thought that it is promising and worth a try. But as it stands, no, it doesn't make me «step into the shop».
      - gress 12y ago
        Nope. You made a statement you knew to be unsupported. Their lack of documentation doesn't change that at all. If you tried the app you would know that you are actually wrong.
hobs 12y ago
I havent tried the grandparent's software, but if I was going to use a native app I would probably try github's first. https://windows.github.com/ https://windows.github.com/ https://mac.github.com/ https://mac.github.com/ I have shown the windows version to a few people and they grokked git a lot better than if I tried via the standard toolkit.
- ksherlock 12y ago
  Github's app lets you push and pull and do some minor work on your repositories. the Octohub app lets you search projects and stalk people.
  - hobs 12y ago
    Alrighty then, a much more social aspect. I stand corrected!

michaelmior 12y ago

I do like the idea of being able to tag repositories. This is something I wish GitHub would let me do.

mackwic 12y ago
Agreed, but still. I don't understand what this app exactly do.