I'd also consider it an homage to git's highly useful pickaxe functionality, which lets you easily find commits that added or removed a given string, for example:
git log -Sgithub
shows you revisions where "github" was added or removed from the repository. Turns out that "git pickaxe" is also an alias for "git blame".
The people at github really get the social aspects of version control. This is one of those things that can make the designers get on board with version control for your project and make it useful for everyone and not just a chore for them. Great job!
Github is now about social designing too. This could help designers get feedback on designs and other designers could possibly fork and improve on the designs.
Well, certainly it's an awesome move on behalf of Github—none can say the opposite, but I don't think it could attract designers (or at least, yet). Github is very code-centric; I mean for to "upload" new content in your repo you have to go through terminal commands and stuff. Not appealing for the designer. If and when Github can also be maintained through visual app(s), then it'd a cool tool for designers to use. But as far as I know, there are lots of professional designer communities out there already.
From memory, this is no different than Microsoft's versioning correct? (Albeit Microsoft's implementation is well hidden. I think I read an article linked here on HN about it).
The swipe feature doesn't work for you? Onion skin is to gradually change the opacity of the new one while keeping the old one constant but below while swipe is a hard line difference that you can move.
I like the swipe feature, but it's harder to grab and drag that tiny handle than to just roll over an image. With rollovers, I'd be able to flip through the two much more rapidly and simply.
A while ago there was a comment here on hackernews which mentioned a designer talking about how much better git maps with a designer's workflow. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2268004)
The basic gist was that designers like to keep around lots of versions and this gels well with git's easy branches.
That coupled with these kind of great tools really give me hope for a version control strategy that is useful to both designers and hackers.
Github is pushing so many envelopes. I don't pay them any money monthly yet, but every single time I see one of these updates - it makes me want to open my wallet to just make sure they don't go out of business.
Btw, anyone know how they are doing those various views ? Are they using Canvas or is there something else ?
I love that they are doing all of this with just css & js and no flash.
It is things like this, that make me excited about the future of the web.
It is highly likely we will see more complex things with non-flash technologies, than we have seen with flash technologies to date, in my humble estimation.
The swipe and onion skin are pretty simple. Both of them put the images in the same place. When you swipe, the width of the top image changes. For the onion skin, the opacity changes.
This looks great, even more motivation for me to get my girlfriend (who is a designer) to use git. Does anyone have any reccomendation for a user friendly GUI based GIT client for Mac?
I really wish GitHub would add support for Mercurial.
There's nothing wrong with BitBucket - I use that right now - but it's clear that GitHub is the innovator and market leader in the field of online source repos.
There was some interesting discussion about the current state of the hg-git plugin on the Changelog show last month (episode 0.4.9) when they interviewed Scott Chacon from Github.
Although i love github and this is yet another brilliant feature, we should give props where due as this as been built into tortoisediff for a while and i am sure many before it.
Nice. What I would like to see is having swipe and onion skin modes working without dragging the slider: just move your mouse over images and get swipe position move along or opacity change accordingly.
Of course, sliders should still be there—and make them bigger, Fitt's law, you know.
Probably some more prominent indication for opacity would not hurt too.
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Anyone care to explain?
I think the best part is that this will make it much easier to evangelize GitHub to designers. It's not like GitHub wasn't a great tool beforehand.
Perhaps github are positioning themselves to take on dropbox in the near future.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/
I doubt it'll happen. But a man can dream!
But - another useful option would be mouse rollovers to switch between two images (which I think would work better than Onion Skin).
Also, I should mention that Kaleidoscope is one of my favorite apps: http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/
The basic gist was that designers like to keep around lots of versions and this gels well with git's easy branches.
That coupled with these kind of great tools really give me hope for a version control strategy that is useful to both designers and hackers.
I have a mancrush on Github. Really!
For anyone else, you can apply for the free student account here: https://github.com/edu
Don't really use the included private repos yet, but I'm so happy with them that I kept paying.
I love that they are doing all of this with just css & js and no flash.
It is things like this, that make me excited about the future of the web.
It is highly likely we will see more complex things with non-flash technologies, than we have seen with flash technologies to date, in my humble estimation.
Difference has some canvas magic going on.
Thanks for this explanation. That makes total sense :)
[1] http://www.git-tower.com/
http://brotherbard.com/blog/2010/11/experimental-gitx-update...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/455698/best-visual-client...
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There's nothing wrong with BitBucket - I use that right now - but it's clear that GitHub is the innovator and market leader in the field of online source repos.
a) A crutch
b) Abandonware
But if you're saying that people are using it then maybe I ought to give it a shot.
Hrm...ah here we go.
http://hg-git.github.com/
> but it's clear that GitHub is the innovator and market leader in the field of online source repos.
You were saying?
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/TortoiseIDiff.html http://imagediff.tigris.org/