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!

I was doing a clean install of Snow Leopard on an older MBP, and got the message “Error: Could not unmount disk.” Somewhat confused at first - I tried it a couple times, restarted the machine, etc. Still no go.

For some reason the hard drive had some open files or applications - which would cause the error. The solution is not obvious, and I just happened to randomly try this and it worked!

-Boot to your into the Snow Leopard installer.
-Open Disk Utilities
-Select the “Macintosh HD” partition, and press the “Unmount” button. (You’ll get an error asking you to make sure all files and applications are closed)
-Select the DVD-Drive (not the disk) (mine was MATSHITA DVD-RXXXXX), now press the “Eject” button in the toolbar. (You’ll get the same error as above)
-Select the “Macintosh HD” partition again, and press the “Unmount” button. This time, it will successfully unmount.

Now you can continue to erase the Macintosh HD partition, and do a clean install of Snow.

Hopefully this works for more people than just me.

I wrote this quick little menulet to replace Apple’s built in eject menu, which only lets you eject the dvd drive.

Here’s a snapshot:

Download it. (10.5 Universal)