GitHub for Windows

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com> wrote in message 
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> "David Nadlinger" <see at klickverbot.at> wrote in message 
> news:lvpmnrfdyinxvkzuswlb at forum.dlang.org...
>> GitHub have just released their Windows GUI for Git/GitHub:
>>
>> http://windows.github.com/
>>
>> Although I'm not sure if it really stands up to the promise of being »the 
>> easiest way to use Git on Windows«, it might be interesting to some of 
>> you who prefer to rather not be bothered with the inner workings of Git.
>>
>> The release announcement is at: 
>> https://github.com/blog/1127-github-for-windows.
>>
>
> Finally!
>
> I still don't understand what posessd them to do a Mac version first. 
> Nobody uses Mac.
>

Jesus, it's almost as bad as their web interface. I don't know how the hell 
they managed that, I'd think you have to *try* to make a desktop app that 
bad.

Upon initial startup: "An unhandled win32 exception occurred in GitHub.exe". 
Great.

Then it runs anyway? But there's *no* titlebar whatsoever. And everything 
else about it is the most poorly-implemented custom-UI I've ever come 
across. Gratuitus amounts of wasted space. Controls that behave...wrong and 
don't even look *at all* like what they're supposed to be (*that* is 
supposed to be a scroll-bar?). Constant...shit...popping up every time you 
touch the mouse. And as far as looks, I'd say it's the ugliest program I've 
used since Chrome, but honesty - it's really is uglier than even that. They 
actually managed to make things like Steam and modern *Adobe* UIs seem 
decent! I didn't think that was even *possible* without VB3.

And on top of that, it's *still* bloatware-city.

Seriously, I could *swear* they made this stupid thing in flash. That 
actually wouldn't surprise me at all.

OTOH, I completely understand now why it started out on Mac. No doubt it 
would fit right in there.

Oh, and the final nail in the coffin, big enough to make everything else 
completely irrelevent? You can't even use it to do *anything* with 
GitHub-hosted repos other than list *your* repos, view the readme, and make 
a local clone. And you can't even choose *where* to put the local clone! 
Seriously? What a completely useless turd of a *cough*"program".

Bah. Fuck GitHub. Head up their asses just as far as Google.