Discovering great tools - qgit
19th September 2008
I can’t believe I hadn’t taken the time to try out qgit yet. Check this out:
Screenshot of the main qgit screen
Install qgit from source on Leopard with these instructions.
Warning: installing the Qt 4.3 prerequisite takes an eternity or two (instructions for that are included as well).
Also note that you should make sure to use the newest versions of the downloads: the instructions point to an old 2.0rc1 release of qgit.
September 19th, 2008 at 18:22
You should also check out gitx. It’s a gitk clone for OS X, and it’s pretty awesome!
September 20th, 2008 at 07:59
Thanks for the heads up, James. I’ll check it out.
September 22nd, 2008 at 21:28
omfg, i’ll have to check out gitx (when I get my new Mac!). Can’t stand the ugliness of Gitk. qgit looks pretty decent though.
September 23rd, 2008 at 07:06
For some reason, gitx didn’t work for me. I haven’t pushed the investigation further though. I mostly use the command line anyway. But both gitx and qgit have the file browser, which is nice :-)
September 24th, 2008 at 15:07
Didn’t try gitx but Gitnub isn’t bad either (also a Cocoa app)
September 25th, 2008 at 07:54
Yeah, I’ll have to give Gitnub another try. I tried it very early on and for some reason it didn’t compile at that time.