GitHub for Windows

[Denis Shelomovskij]

21.05.2012 23:56, Nick Sabalausky написал:
> "Nick Sabalausky"<SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com>  wrote in message
> news:jpe4ru$13e8$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> "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".

It's pleasant to see right words.
+1

> Bah. Fuck GitHub.

+1


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Денис В. Шеломовский
Denis V. Shelomovskij