My Aha moments:
1)Discovering gitx for Mac Os. Specifically the brotherbard version. https://github.com/brotherbard/gitx Use this daily.
2)Learning about git rebase <branch> to make commit history more readable
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brotherbard / gitx
gitx
Experimental fork of Pieter's nice git GUI for OS X. Includes: sidebar, fetch, pull, push, add remote, merge, cherry-pick, rebase, clone, clone to. Mac OS X 10.5+ (see wiki for screenshot)
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10Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
1.5KGitHub stars
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What it is
Experimental fork of Pieter's nice git GUI for OS X. Includes: sidebar, fetch, pull, push, add remote, merge, cherry-pick, rebase, clone, clone to. Mac OS X 10.5+ (see wiki for screenshot)
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Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
Brotherbard's fork has a bunch of additional features and I've found it to be pretty stable. I use it daily and highly recommend it. https://github.com/brotherbard/gitx
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Mar 2010 | 2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 2010 | 2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2010 | 2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jun 2010 | 2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2010 | 2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2010 | 2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2010 | 2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2010 | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 2010 | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Dec 2010 | 2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2011 | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 2011 | 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 2011 | 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 2011 | 2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2011 | 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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GitX
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# What is GitX?
GitX is a gitk like clone written specifically for OS X Leopard and higher.
This means that it has a native interface and tries to integrate with the
operating system as good as possible. Examples of this are drag and drop
support and QuickLook support.
# Features
The project is currently still in its starting phases. As time goes on,
hopefully more features will be added. Currently GitX supports the following:
* History browsing of your repository
* See a nicely formatted diff of any revision
* Search based on author or revision subject
* Look at the complete tree of any revision
* Preview any file in the tree in a text view or with QuickLook
* Drag and drop files out of the tree view to copy them to your system
* Support for all parameters git rev-list has
# License
GitX is licensed under the GPL version 2. For more information, see the attached COPYING file.
# Downloading
GitX is currently hosted at GitHub. It's project page can be found at
http://github.com/pieter/gitx. Recent binary releases can be found at
http://github.com/pieter/gitx/wikis.
If you wish to follow GitX development, you can download the source code
through git:
git clone git://github.com/pieter/gitx
# Installation
The easiest way to get GitX running is to download the binary release from the
wiki. If you wish to compile it yourself, you will need XCode 3.0 or later. As
GitX makes use of features available only on Leopard (such as garbage
collection), you will not be able to compile it on previous versions of OS X.
To compile GitX, open the GitX.xcodeproj file and hit "Build".
# Usage
GitX itself is fairly simple. Most of its power is in the 'gitx' binary, which
you should install through the menu. the 'gitx' binary supports most of git
rev-list's arguments. For example, you can run `gitx --all' to display all
branches in the repository, or `gitx -- Documentation' to only show commits
relating to the 'Documentation' subdirectory. With `gitx -Shaha', gitx will
only show commits that contain the word 'haha'. Similarly, with 'gitx
v0.2.1..', you will get a list of all commits since version 0.2.1.
# Helping out
Any help on GitX is welcome. GitX is programmed in Objective-C, but even if
you are not a programmer you can do useful things. A short selection:
* Create a nice icon;
* Help with the Javascript/HTML views, such as the diff view;
* File bug reports and feature requests.
A TODO list can be found on the wiki: http://github.com/pieter/gitx/wikis/todo
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
10 sourcesMac-based developers might also like to check out Brotherbard's experimental GitX fork:
https://github.com/brotherbard/gitx/downloads
In Show HN: Sprout (formerly GitMac) the Fast Simple Git Mac AppIt's not a "people" issue. How does one discern the canonical source of a package on GitHub? Take GitX as an example:
The "top parent" project: https://github.com/pieter/gitx
Andre Berg's fork: https://github.com/andreberg/gitx
The Brotherbard fork: https://github.com/brotherbard/gitx
Which is "the project"? The answer is all of them AND none of them. That's the nature of GitHub. Zed's point is that for a sysadmin, all this obscurity is unacceptable. Having a canonical source for a package is important. That source should obscure away who the actors are making the package happen. If Pieter wants to hand the project off to Andre, who in turn hands it off to Nathan, that's great, but the sysadmin doesn't really want to track that for every package he/she installs on their server.
That is why launchpad is better for sysadmins. Not because it
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is better in any general sense. Just because it meets a different set of needs. These are not criticisms of GitHub, these are statements of the reality.
The closest thing GitHub has to a "project" abstraction is the organization:
https://github.com/blog/674-introducing-organizations
One could, conceivably, create an organization to manage a project's code, but that doesn't address all of the other package ecosystems that Launchpad executes more deftly.
You're quite wrong.
GitX is available at https://github.com/brotherbard/gitx/downloads (Get the experimental branch)
Git Tower is available at http://www.git-tower.com/
Textmate has a GIT Bundle at https://github.com/jcf/git-tmbundle (It's quite good, but maybe not for designers).
And Giggle (http://live.gnome.org/giggle).
Windows is the only OS lacking a good client, but I use GitX for Mac every day, as do the less technical "devs" at our Startup.
In Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open source projects?Brotherbard's fork has a bunch of additional features and I've found it to be pretty stable. I use it daily and highly recommend it.
https://github.com/brotherbard/gitx
In Gitbox 1.0 released: a version control app for MacAppSales-Mobile to an amazing and well supported find to track your iOS app sales. https://github.com/omz/AppSales-Mobile
On the Mac Brotherbard's Gitx fork is very cool. https://github.com/brotherbard/gitx
GitFlow - takes your Git skills to the next level.
https://github.com/nvie/gitflow
In Ask HN: which obscure Github projects have you found useful?If you're on OS X, bortherbard's fork of gitx might work if you're looking for a graphical option:
http://github.com/brotherbard/gitx/downloads
I don't actually use it to commit because I have a screwy commit flow, but I'd expect it to work for a basic commit cycle.
In A List Apart: Get started with GitFor a more fully featured and active fork of GitX check out http://github.com/brotherbard/gitx
In Ask HN: Git GUI for Mac?There's also an experimental fork of GitX that adds basic support for pulling/pushing, etc.
See here: http://github.com/brotherbard/gitx
In Ask HN: How do I get started with version control?A friend recommended a fork of GitX:
http://github.com/brotherbard/gitx/downloads
In Joel is wrong. Subversion does not equal leeches.