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Comment by 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.

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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. :-)