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0 pointsGelob9y ago0 comments

Thats about all Atlassian is good at. HipChat has become an abomination of a client across Windows and Mac. Every new release is about fixing functionality they broke with the previous release and even then it still isn't fixed.

Logging in from multiple places has always been terrible. I'll be logged in on Mac and available but randomly get emails as if I'm offline. I'll be online on my phone and get e-mails. I wan't emails of messages when I'm actually offline and not logged in but HipChat doesn't seem to care and emails me anyways sometimes. The option to turn off email notifications isn't very configurable either. Its off or on.

Look at the release notes for windows and mac and search for reconnection. Just about every release has a fix for reconnecting going back to 2014.

https://www.hipchat.com/release_notes/mac https://www.hipchat.com/release_notes/windows

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Spoom9y ago

HipChat has become an abomination of a client across Windows and Mac.

Ha, try using it in Linux!

chinhodado9y ago

And don't even get me started on SourceTree. Just about every release since 1.5.2 is a disaster, to the point of almost non-usable right now.

edraferi9y ago

Really? I'm pretty happy with it. Definitely better than Github desktop, and more full featured than the light git extensions you find in most editors.

What Git GUI do you prefer?

weaksauce9y ago

If you can hang with it being in emacs, magit is phenomenal and makes a lot of the harder things (rebase, conflict resolution, etc.) in git easier.

Lightning talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ccCNQaTJ10

also, if you are a vimmer use spacemacs to get out of the box, nicely configured vim.

josho9y ago

Gitup for the Mac http://gitup.co

Definitely my favourite client, and OSS to boot. I can't really think of much I'd want changed to improve it.

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bacongobbler9y ago

tig. It's been under active development for over 10 years now. https://github.com/jonas/tig

tedmiston9y ago

> Definitely better than Github desktop

Not really a fair comparison: SourceTree targets professional devs while GitHub Desktop caters to making git + GitHub simple for beginners. I like the client personally, but it isn't a daily driver. Beyond absolute basics the feature set is totally different.

jonno1239y ago

I'm a big fan of SmartGit http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/

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SippinLean9y ago

GitKraken looks promising, and introduces some new UI concepts (drag and drop merging, for example). It's still fairly young but could be a competitor.

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supergreg9y ago

Checkout gitkraken. Really easy to use. Cleaner interface than sourcetree with almost all the features.

axtscz9y ago

Gitkraken is amazing

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thijsvandien9y ago

In case you missed it, Tower (https://www.git-tower.com – not affiliated) recently got a Windows version. It doesn't have the same level of quality as the Mac version yet (which I've been using for years) but it's improving rapidly and I expect it to be production ready within a couple of months. It's taking relatively long to port because thankfully it is made a native Windows application. Not free, but well worth the money.

tobidobi9y ago

Tobias here from the Tower team! I'd like to confirm your assumption: we're indeed working full-steam on improving Tower for Windows (and Mac, of course ;-)

We have quite some exciting features and additions on the roadmap!

Vinkekatten9y ago

Cool, thanks for the tip. I've been eyeing Tower for a long time, but us being a windows/linux shop it's not been a contender until now.

st3v3r9y ago

Like what? SourceTree works just about perfectly for me.

canistr9y ago

I like Tower on macOS, but version 2 is significantly worse than version 1. UI/UX and the number of bugs has been a major pain-point that has made me consider switching to SourceTree. But I still haven't gotten use to SourceTree and GitHub Desktop isn't a great client either as a substitute.

tedmiston9y ago

The only major bug I've experienced in Tower v2 is related to renaming repos. That part's very broken, but besides that it's been great for me.

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dabernathy899y ago

I've been pretty happy with SourceTree. I wouldn't call myself a power user, though.

EDIT: now that I think about it, there are a few buggy things about it that are frequent but are just an annoyance, not a hindrance.

brusch649y ago

A Mac user said it should be quite good on OS X, but it sucks on Windows.

It is incredible slow for many operations.

My solution is to use command line git for most operations and SourceTree just for visualizing the repository. It's pretty fine for this.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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Spoom9y ago

HipChat has become an abomination of a client across Windows and Mac.

Ha, try using it in Linux!

chinhodado9y ago

And don't even get me started on SourceTree. Just about every release since 1.5.2 is a disaster, to the point of almost non-usable right now.

edraferi9y ago

Really? I'm pretty happy with it. Definitely better than Github desktop, and more full featured than the light git extensions you find in most editors.

What Git GUI do you prefer?

weaksauce9y ago

If you can hang with it being in emacs, magit is phenomenal and makes a lot of the harder things (rebase, conflict resolution, etc.) in git easier.

Lightning talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ccCNQaTJ10

also, if you are a vimmer use spacemacs to get out of the box, nicely configured vim.

josho9y ago

Gitup for the Mac http://gitup.co

Definitely my favourite client, and OSS to boot. I can't really think of much I'd want changed to improve it.

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bacongobbler9y ago

tig. It's been under active development for over 10 years now. https://github.com/jonas/tig

tedmiston9y ago

> Definitely better than Github desktop

jonno1239y ago

I'm a big fan of SmartGit http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/

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SippinLean9y ago

GitKraken looks promising, and introduces some new UI concepts (drag and drop merging, for example). It's still fairly young but could be a competitor.

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supergreg9y ago

Checkout gitkraken. Really easy to use. Cleaner interface than sourcetree with almost all the features.

axtscz9y ago

Gitkraken is amazing

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thijsvandien9y ago

tobidobi9y ago

Tobias here from the Tower team! I'd like to confirm your assumption: we're indeed working full-steam on improving Tower for Windows (and Mac, of course ;-)

We have quite some exciting features and additions on the roadmap!

Vinkekatten9y ago

Cool, thanks for the tip. I've been eyeing Tower for a long time, but us being a windows/linux shop it's not been a contender until now.

st3v3r9y ago

Like what? SourceTree works just about perfectly for me.

canistr9y ago

tedmiston9y ago

The only major bug I've experienced in Tower v2 is related to renaming repos. That part's very broken, but besides that it's been great for me.

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dabernathy899y ago

I've been pretty happy with SourceTree. I wouldn't call myself a power user, though.

EDIT: now that I think about it, there are a few buggy things about it that are frequent but are just an annoyance, not a hindrance.

brusch649y ago

A Mac user said it should be quite good on OS X, but it sucks on Windows.

It is incredible slow for many operations.

My solution is to use command line git for most operations and SourceTree just for visualizing the repository. It's pretty fine for this.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse