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Comment by Groxx

7 years ago

http://gitup.co/

This looks fantastic, thanks for mentioning it! I've been looking for a GUI that doesn't mesh poorly with [whatever patterns my team uses] / without always pushing other features or a signup.

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benliong78  7 years ago

Thanks for the recommendation. Fantastic looking software that provides a far better visualization of the repo than anything else I have used. Bravo.

I use CLI for almost everything but sometimes it helps to have a visual representation of the repo.

dilap  7 years ago

It's a really sweet piece of software, and I'm surprised it's not more popular. I'd be curious to hear how it ends up going for ya'll -- you can message me on twitter at @hazememry if you'd like.

  • Groxx  7 years ago

    So far I've found:

        it's reasonably fast until I throw it at a huge monorepo :)  but it still works (~2fps)!  even `gitk` errors on this one.
    missing some hotkeys (like prev/next commit buttons in preview)
    freezes on remote-repo actions like fetch/pull/etc.  likely due to our enterprisey ssh setup.
    generally missing a bit of polish.  click targets are small, could use some more config (and only in one location, "search commits" is in its own thing), etc

    Aside from the remote repo freeze-up, I'm liking it a lot. Way better control than others I've tried (i.e. it has nearly all the features), undo support, and a much better mental-model for Git in general.

    If I can figure out how to fix the remote freeze-up, it might become my daily driver, which would be a first for a Git GUI.

    • dilap  7 years ago

      Yep, doesn't scale great to huge repos, sadly.

      I hadn't thought about the prev/next preview missing hotkeys, but you're right. I realized what I do is go into preview with space, leave preview with space, and then use the arrow keys to select the next commit I'm interested in. So in effect, "space, down, space" is hotkey for next commit.

      Bummer about the remote freeze thing. I think the dev is reasonably responsive to bug reports.

      I've got a list of things myself I think could be better, but I've been too lazy to attempt any of them. But I do try to proselytize in the hopes it'll pick up a bigger community. :-)