Gitbox is 1 year old: status report

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by oleganza • 15 years ago

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mgkimsal2• 15 years ago

Congrats!

I've told the devs at one of my clients to grab this and give it a try for $5. They're primarily tower users, but for $5 they should give gitbox a real spin (vs the trial version).

Thanks for your work over the last year. I remember I sent you what I thought was an odd bug a year ago when I first got it during your discount period, and you replied back very quickly and dealt with my issue awesomely. I don't even remember the problem now, only the service :)

Just upgrading to 1.5.2 this morning - looking forward to the new features in 1.5!

sirn2• 15 years ago

I really want to like Gitbox (wow, a Git GUI that don't try to put every Git command in its menu bar!) however I always feel its lacks of branch/commit graph make it "too simple" for a $40. For me commit visualization is possibly the only thing I'd ever want to use GUI client for, and lacking that make the app nearly useless for me.

oleganza12• 15 years ago

Useful graph visualization and multiple branch handling is already designed and is planned for one of the nearest updates.

sirn2• 15 years ago

+1 purchase. Look forward to it ;)

grk• 15 years ago

It looks great for browsing repos. However, to be really useful for me it would have to have something similar to gitx's commit view - show what's staged and what's not, show diffs, give the option to stage selected lines.

oleganza12• 15 years ago

Line-by-line staging and built-in diff is planned in one of the next updates.

joelhaasnoot• 15 years ago

So when are we going to get a good, affordable or free Windows Git client?

frou_dh• 15 years ago

When you write it

mgkimsal2• 15 years ago

Sounds like an opp for someone to build and market via the upcoming windows app store, no?

trustfundbaby• 15 years ago

Tortoise git is really good http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/

mweibel2• 15 years ago

Hmm.. 5$ respectively 5 CHF? I want to try it but when I click on "Buy app" it tells me that the price is actually 20 CHF and not 5... Someone else with a similar problem?

oleganza12• 15 years ago

Apple is propagating changes through their servers for an hour already. Please try to check it out again in an hour or so.

mweibel2• 15 years ago

Ah ok, thx for the quick reply :)

oleganza12• 15 years ago

Guys, sorry for some App Store error messages or incorrect pricing.

Apple is propagating changes through their servers for an hour already. Please try to check it out again in an hour or so.

thehodge2• 15 years ago

Still unable to buy, just an FYI :)

oleganza12• 15 years ago

What store do you use? (UK?)

elomar• 15 years ago

Still not working for me on Brazilian App Store. How long will you keep it on sale? I don't wanna miss it :)

ciryx• 15 years ago

While Gitbox obviously misses branch visualization and submodule handling it makes my daily git workflow so much better. I can only recommend it. Especially at this price point.

oleganza12• 15 years ago

Submodules' support is coming very soon. Multiple branches handling and tree visualization is coming next.

lucian1900• 15 years ago

Gitbox looks really nice. Sadly, I'm not using Mac OS X?

Any chance of a linux version, maybe via GNUStep/etoile?

preek4• 15 years ago

What exactly does CMD+Z do for a push?

oleganza12• 15 years ago

It pushes previous commit ID into the remote branch.

preek4• 15 years ago

If it doesn't revert the last commit, what you say would be a forced push, correct?

robterrell• 15 years ago

Didn't know about gitbox, just bought it, well done. I can cross "make a simple, sane git GUI" off my 2012 to-do list.

Not to obsess over details, but the window resizer draws over checkboxes. Would you consider adding a thin footer bar to the bottom of the window, like Safari, or reduce the width of the content pane, like Xcode?

oleganza12• 15 years ago

Thanks for suggestion. It's only an issue in Snow Leopard. However, I will add a bottom toolbar, but for other reasons.

flyingyeti• 15 years ago

I'd love to try it out, but I'm getting an error from the App Store currently:

    We could not complete your request.
    There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later. (100)

    Purchase of this item is not currently available.
    This item is being modified. Please try again later.

oleganza12• 15 years ago

Some rare problem with App Store today. I've already submitted a request to fix this. You may try a bit later. For many users it works fine.

mbreese• 15 years ago

FYI: I'm still having that issue...

jontas2• 15 years ago

As am I..

roryokane• 15 years ago

This story’s link is to the general Gitbox blog. The actual post with that title is at http://blog.oleganza.com/post/13630966174/gitbox-is-1-year-o....

jcoby2• 15 years ago

I bought it but it triggers the discrete video card in my 2010 MBP whenever I view a change. That makes it impossible to keep running or it will drain my battery twice as fast.

I do like the single view but it really needs to have the timeline.

ConstantineXVI• 15 years ago

In my experience with other apps, I think the GPU behavior is an artifact of Core Animation (I definitely recall seeing this in Sparrow, at least). Bit weird that OSX would default to breaking out the GPU for the smallest UI effects, especially because of the effect on battery life.

jcoby2• 15 years ago

Yeah, and it's annoying that the discrete switch is kept until the app shuts down. I have no clue what Gitbox is doing on the change set viewer to trigger the switch. I didn't see any animations.

Chrome also triggers the discrete GPU so I can't use it either. I'd really like to because of Safari's problems with the debug tools. I don't want to get used to Chrome when I can only realistically use it when on power.

falling• 15 years ago

To everybody receiving an error purchasing the app: remove the copy you already have in /Applications/

Gitbox is 1 year old: status report

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