

- #GITHUB DESKTOP COMMAND LINE INSTALL#
- #GITHUB DESKTOP COMMAND LINE SOFTWARE#
- #GITHUB DESKTOP COMMAND LINE DOWNLOAD#
- #GITHUB DESKTOP COMMAND LINE WINDOWS#
Important to a lot of people, though I’d like the ability to easily modify things here.

The Appearance option has a light and dark theme. I assume notepad++ or other editors might appear here. For Integrations, the app detected I have Sublime Text installed, so I can use that instead of VS Code.
#GITHUB DESKTOP COMMAND LINE SOFTWARE#
Under File – Options, there are some good, handy things that much software has these days, but much also doesn’t. I submit quite a few of those to keep track of work, so it’s nice to be able to get there quickly from here. The Repository menu is what you’d expect, but the “Create issue on GitHub” is really nice. Those are good things to have in this tool and common tasks. First, I like that the branch menu has some things beyond the “new branch” and compare. I’ll cover a few things I found to be nice items. There some interesting options in the tool. Opening this in VS Code, Explorer, or a default program is a nice touch as well. However, the “ignore” feature is nice, as well as the add all of this type option. This is likely good enough for me that I can discard the changes. If I right click the file, I do see a few options. I committed two changes and that left the third. The right side of the filename has a hyphen for a delete and a circle for a chance. If I make a few changes in this repo, in a few seconds I see the changes reflected on the main page. This repo always has a remote at GitHub, so I see the “Open the repository” link on the “Changes” tab. When I look at history for an older repo, I see lots of commits. I can cancel that and just drop another repo folder onto the app, and I get the same dialog as well. This gives me the same type of dialog I got from a drag and drop repo. Let’s try using the “Add repository” menu item. If I restart the app, I come back to my main repo screen. The “Getting Started” screen isn’t listed, and I can’t close the repo. I wonder what happens if I drop a local repo on here that’s in GitHub? Let’s try that. If I click the “History” tab, I see my commit of this repo on the left, the files in the middle, and file contents on the right. This becomes my current working repo, and I can see a somewhat standard view of my repo that I see in SourceTree or GitKrakken or any client.Īs you might expect, this is geared towards publishing to GitHub. I have a git repo that isn’t in GitHub yet, so let’s drag that folder and drop it on the “Pro Tip” section in the lower right (see the image above). With that in mind, let’s drop an existing repo folder onto the client. I decided to see how well this works, to see if this is more stable. I agree, and I see a get started view, with my online repos listed. Once this completes, I get asked to allow my browser to open the app. I have two factor set up, which ensures that you can’t just link to my repos and guess my password. I do have to authenticate, which I think is important. If I lose control of my local machine, I have bigger issues. I’m always wary of this, and I think that I should really understand what this means, but for most things, this is fine. Once I sign up, I need to approve permissions. Signing up is easy, it’s free, and since lots of people use GitHub, just sign up. I can skip this, and likely use this as a local git manager, but since I have a GitHub account, I’ll do that.

When this gets done, I get asked to sign into GitHub. Good and bad, but overall, this is likely a few MB, and I like this. No UAC, no picking files, not EULA, no crazy installer.
#GITHUB DESKTOP COMMAND LINE INSTALL#
I downloaded the installed and when I clicked the file, the install ran, with no other actions from me. I abandoned it early and moved to SourceTree and GitFrakken ( I couldn’t decide).
#GITHUB DESKTOP COMMAND LINE WINDOWS#
I hope it also works better, as I found the GitHub for Windows software to be quite flaky. This replaces GitHub for Windows, and gives a unified experience across Windows and MacOS. I went searching, and instead found GitHub Desktop, which is the new client from GitHub for working with Git.
#GITHUB DESKTOP COMMAND LINE DOWNLOAD#
When I started using Git, I first download GitHub for Windows.
