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Just signed up. My git functionality is at a level of "can do all of the basic jank easily but need to Google everything else", which I'm super comfortable wit

by jmduke 11y ago

Just signed up. My git functionality is at a level of "can do all of the basic jank easily but need to Google everything else", which I'm super comfortable with, in all honesty. The only thing I really want out of a GUI is a visual diff/comparison tool before pushes. Does anyone have any recommendations for something along these lines?

dabeeeenster 11y ago
https://mac.github.com/ https://mac.github.com/ ?
aaronbrethorst 11y ago
Sourcetree's not bad.
mklim 11y ago
Source Tree (https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/) is great. Good visual layout of your diffs at any given point with the ability to stage/discard/unstage specific lines from within the program.
- malnourish 11y ago
  In my experience Source Tree is good but it happens to have noticeable slowdown and "jank" on both OS X and Windows after a while. On OS X I've been using Tower to great effect. Unfortunately it's OS X only.
  - jamesfmilne 11y ago
    I've found Tower to be very sluggish on a large repository on OS X, where as Source Tree keeps on trucking. Our repo is 4GB and has about 1 million commits. Source Tree is the only client on Mac I've found so far that doesn't completely grind to a halt on a repository of this size.
- dogweather 11y ago
  For me, Source Tree is very unusable and doesn't make any sense. Maybe I'm approaching it wrong? It feels like there wasn't much thought about user stories and ux: every git operation was given a button or menu item. Sort of the MS Word phenomenon. Their screenshot on its home page is overwhelming, just like the design of their apps: a hundred items all vying for your attention. In contrast, GitHub's app for Mac is immediately useful: it makes the 80/20 of git work easy.
jglovier 11y ago
While you're waiting for access to the Desktop preview, check out the current GitHub for Mac (https://mac.github.com/ https://mac.github.com/) and GitHub for Windows (https://windows.github.com/ https://windows.github.com/). I use GHfM everyday in tandem with CLI, and the basic visual diffing is great.
- dogweather 11y ago
  GitHub for Mac is awesome; I depend on it for my work along with gitsh for certain tasks. But when installing it on a fresh machine the other day, I couldn't find a link to it from the GitHub site (as a longged in user). I needed to go back out to Google to get the URL. Made me wonder if it's going to be dropped or unsupported.

by jmduke 11y ago

dabeeeenster 11y ago

https://mac.github.com/ https://mac.github.com/ ?

aaronbrethorst 11y ago

Sourcetree's not bad.

mklim 11y ago

Source Tree (https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/) is great. Good visual layout of your diffs at any given point with the ability to stage/discard/unstage specific lines from within the program.

malnourish 11y ago
In my experience Source Tree is good but it happens to have noticeable slowdown and "jank" on both OS X and Windows after a while. On OS X I've been using Tower to great effect. Unfortunately it's OS X only.
- jamesfmilne 11y ago
  I've found Tower to be very sluggish on a large repository on OS X, where as Source Tree keeps on trucking. Our repo is 4GB and has about 1 million commits. Source Tree is the only client on Mac I've found so far that doesn't completely grind to a halt on a repository of this size.
dogweather 11y ago
For me, Source Tree is very unusable and doesn't make any sense. Maybe I'm approaching it wrong? It feels like there wasn't much thought about user stories and ux: every git operation was given a button or menu item. Sort of the MS Word phenomenon. Their screenshot on its home page is overwhelming, just like the design of their apps: a hundred items all vying for your attention. In contrast, GitHub's app for Mac is immediately useful: it makes the 80/20 of git work easy.

jglovier 11y ago

While you're waiting for access to the Desktop preview, check out the current GitHub for Mac (https://mac.github.com/ https://mac.github.com/) and GitHub for Windows (https://windows.github.com/ https://windows.github.com/). I use GHfM everyday in tandem with CLI, and the basic visual diffing is great.

dogweather 11y ago
GitHub for Mac is awesome; I depend on it for my work along with gitsh for certain tasks. But when installing it on a fresh machine the other day, I couldn't find a link to it from the GitHub site (as a longged in user). I needed to go back out to Google to get the URL. Made me wonder if it's going to be dropped or unsupported.