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Brotherbards's Blog

Personal blog · brotherbard.com/blogprogramming

Brotherbards's Blog is a personal blog at brotherbard.com about programming. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Experimental GitX fork”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2010–2011first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its posts on an experimental fork of GitX, a Git GUI client for Mac. Commenters point to the fork as an alternative to the original GitX.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Experimental GitX fork
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-04-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. If you're interested, here are the decent (looking, not used) alternatives - Brother's Gitx fork http://brotherbard.com/blog/2010/03/experimental-gitx-fork/ Gitbox http://gitboxapp.com/ and Gitx http://gitx.frim.nl/

    Comment linking /blog/2010/03/experimental-gitx-fork/

    on “GitHub for Mac”
  2. Submitted Experimental GitX fork as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. GitX is nice, but there's a fork of it that's so much nicer: http://brotherbard.com/blog/2010/11/experimental-gitx-update...

    Comment linking /blog/2010/11/experimental-gitx-update-4/

    on “GitHub now has view modes for image diffs.”
  4. I was looking for the killer GUI for a while and then I found Git X which filled the gap for me. http://gitx.frim.nl/seeit.html There is also an interesting fork which I have yet to try: http://brotherbard.com/blog/2010/03/experimental-gitx-fork/

    Comment linking /blog/2010/03/experimental-gitx-fork/

    on “Subversion clients can now write to GitHub”

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