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MacStories Apps Tree Giveaway

Check out this sweet opportunity to grab some good apps - MacStories App Tree

It includes 5 licenses for Breeze and Gity. And obviously a ton of other great apps.

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Alpha Release For Gity - A New Git App For Mac

I’m really excited to share this news. I’ve been working on a git app for OS X for about 3 months. And this is to announce the first alpha release; it’ll be free during alpha and beta. It requires Mac OS X Snow Leopard - it uses Grand Central Dispatch, and some other new API’s that are only available on 10.6.

My schedule is tentative right now. The bug and features list before a final release is very small, so I’m crossing my fingers for two months for a final release. My timeline will also expand or contract based off of feedback and bug reports I get. So make sure to try it, break it, and ask about features. Just don’t swear at me please.

You’ll notice that there are three menu items that are always disabled, and the submodule feature is completely taken out. I had to disable those because I couldn’t complete them in time. I needed a break, and am really excited to get this out. It’s one of those situations that I’m sure some of you have run into - I could have continued working on this for three more months before showing anyone. But it’s time to let it out and start getting feedback.

I should also note that some other features you won’t see in Gity yet are “inspecting” features; most notably diff, or even looking at what the contents of the file is. I purposefully left this out for now. Gity will have two “final” releases. The first one mentioned above, the second sometime in the future. It will include diff tools, and hunk/line tools. But hold on to your panties that release is further away.

You should be pretty familiar with using git from command-line; Gity uses the same terminology - so the more familiar you are the better. If you have questions about what certain things do, the best reference is the man pages.

I just put up the new site here. And I’ve also got a forum in place for feedback and communication.

Please do check it out!

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