👉 GitHub Desktop 2.0 expands to support stashing and rebasing
I'm a fan of this app for some of my workflows, but always felt there was a lot to be desired. So I am definitely happy about this. Alongside VSCode, I expect more and more good tooling around GitHub. I hope that this raises the bar for competitors, rather than just squashing them.
I made a post a little while ago asking for thoughts on how folks generally make use of the interplay between GitHub and their desktop environment. This strikes me as relevant to that general outlook.
Thoughts?
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I've never really used the Desktop app for my workflow so I'm curious how this will improve the developer experience for those that use the desktop app.
I use a lot the Desktop app mainly, mainly because I haven't given enough time to the console. This is good news!
I'm a super fan of Atlasian's SourceTree. I honestly believe you cannot be as productive without a GUI. Having said that, I prefer terminal than a bad GUI and this update doesn't seem enough for me to switch, but hey, keep em coming and maybe one day...
Stashing and rebasing are so key to my workflow. I liked using GitHub Desktop but I was pretty committed to CLI already. Might give it a go again!
I used to use the Desktop app (including Beta builds) but other than cloning projects, it never seemed useful for personal stuff. Maybe if my work was on Github it'd be easier to see the trees and such in the Desktop app, but when basically every project is just a trunk of a single person working, it seemed useless.
I'll probably reinstall it on my personal computer now, but I'll still use GitKracken on my personal and work computers. Enough features to make it useful for professional stuff, easy enough cloning for personal stuff, profile switching, and I had (have?) pro from the Github Student Pack (woo grad school perks)
Cool.
I never really got into the Desktop app. I've been so used to command line now, and for PRs, I review on github.com. Is the main reason to use it to visualize branches or what other benefits does it offer that the website does not?
I never really gave it time to learn how it works. I guess I'll give it a try on the next few days.
It was a life saver when starting out and having to work with Windows.
I mostly use my Mac and command line now, but still bust out the desktop app if I do some quick stuff on my pc.
I use GitHub Desktop purely for checking out changes/history, it feels like it's missing way too many tasks compared to the command line to use it without the CLI. Looks like they've added rebasing stuff recently but can't find anything in the menus to stash changes.