I was thinking about hacking on an Air app to help with this too.. Any takers on helping? Dav
-- Dav Glass [email protected] blog.davglass.com + Windows: n. - The most successful computer virus, ever. + + A computer without a Microsoft operating system is like a dog without bricks tied to its head + + A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine + On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Tekkub <[email protected]> wrote: > Tortoisegit and gitsafe aren't exactly in a usable state for betatesters > even, let alone end users of the windows variety. Gitextensions is the only > truly functional windows-only gui, but it might not be what your users are > in need of. Git-gui, though "ugly", actually works quite well. The only > things they need to understand are staging changes into the index, > committing and pushing... which they would need to understand to use git in > any form. > What type of files are these users working with? If it's plain text, you > could have them do their commits online with github's inline file editing. > > You also might want to keep an eye on my little project, fugit: > http://github.com/tekkub/fugit/<http://github.com/tekkub/fugit/tree/master> > My > goal here is to reproduce all the good things about git-gui and gitk, then > expand it with other handy things lacking from those apps or poorly > implemented in them. Currently you need ruby and gem to install it, but I > do plan on having a normal installer for users that don't have ruby. The > app should be easily portable to linux and mac as well. > > Tekkub > Github General Support > http://support.github.com/ > Join us on IRC: #github on freenode.net > Discussion group: [email protected] > > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Tchalvak <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I'm looking to turn a project I'm working open source and put it up on >> github. I've got a lot of very non-technical users, many of whom are >> not using git on linux as I am. >> >> I'm looking to maximize collaboration efforts and make attempts to do >> so as painless as possible, including doing as much of the rebase/ >> merge/patch work myself, so i'm looking for as simple of a solution to >> allow my users to submit simple changes from windows. >> >> I'm really interested in the tortoisegit project, though I've heard of >> gitextensions as a solution as well. >> What kind of simple windows solutions have worked for you guys in the >> past? >> What apps haven't worked? >> >> I'm going to try out gittortoise on windows myself at some point, so >> maybe I'll report back about the state of that project eventually, but >> perspectives on other simple alternatives would be great as well. >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
