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caged / gitnub

gitnub

A Gitk-like application written in RubyCocoa that looks like it belongs on a Mac. See the wiki for downloads and screenshots.

5Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1KGitHub stars
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What it is

A Gitk-like application written in RubyCocoa that looks like it belongs on a Mac. See the wiki for downloads and screenshots.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2008-03-20 14:31:31 UTC to 2010-11-27 11:16:33 UTC.

01232008-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20082009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20092010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2010

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20082008-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20092009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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Command line version suits me well. If I need xcode integration, I can use xcode 4 preview, which has merging tools and code comparison boiled in. By the way the site talks about a discount until Dec 1, I guess I'd skip that discount no matter what, as others mentioned a tool called Git Tower which seems to have a pleaser UI. Some sites also suggested another open sourced Git UI called Gity http://gngrwzrd.com/ other than GitX which to me is just another blend of git-gui. In the OSS part Gitnub (https://github.com/Caged/gitnub) is a UI for Github and Git in general, but this one is not pure Cocoa (requires RubyCocoa.
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