SmartGit, a new GUI front-end for Git

> We would like to announce a new milestone build of our Git client "SmartGit"
> (don't be offended by the name, it's historically based) which we feel is
> ready now for a broader audience. SmartGit is quite stable and we want to
> invite everyone who is interested in giving it a try:
> 
>  http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/index.html
> 
> Please don't expect all Git features and options implemented. We have
> tried to first concentrate on the most important ones - from our rather
> novice Git perspective.

> Hi all,
>
> We would like to announce a new milestone build of our Git client "SmartGit"
> (don't be offended by the name, it's historically based) which we feel is
> ready now for a broader audience. SmartGit is quite stable and we want to
> invite everyone who is interested in giving it a try:
>
>  http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/index.html
>
> Please don't expect all Git features and options implemented. We have
> tried to first concentrate on the most important ones - from our rather
> novice Git perspective.
>
> SmartGit runs on all operating systems which support a full Java 1.5
> implementation, including virtually all Linux versions, OS X 10.4 - 10.6 and
> Windows 2000 or newer. It requires a Git installation, although a couple of
> time-critical operations are handled by the JGit library.
>
> We appreciate your feed-back in our mailing list
>
>  http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/community.html
>
> or directly to us (smartgit@syntevo.com). SmartGit 1.0 is planned to be
> released free of charge for non-commercial use or to active members of the
> Open Source community. Each pre-release build expires 3 months after the
> build-date.
>
> At this occasion I would also like to express my appreciation to the
> community for this great DVCS you have built. Approx. a 3/4 year ago I've
> started to use Git. Although I had some starting problems with it using the
> Git command line (mostly on Windows), I need to say that over time I really
> fell in love with Git and its elaborate foundations and feature set.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Thomas Singer
> =============
> syntevo GmbH
> http://www.syntevo.com
> http://blog.syntevo.com
>
>
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> Hi Thomas,
> 
> I just launched SmartGit, and it ate my ~/.gitconfig.  Luckily I had a
> backup (full of my own aliases and colour settings etc.).
> 
> SmartGit replaced mine with a ~/.gitconfig containing _only_ my name
> and email settings.  Not good.  I would bet that 99% of all people on
> this list have their own customized version of ~/.gitconfig and
> SmartGit is probably going to eat it.  If it helps, I am running OS X.
> 
> James.
> 
> 2009/9/19 Thomas Singer <thomas.singer@syntevo.com>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We would like to announce a new milestone build of our Git client "SmartGit"
>> (don't be offended by the name, it's historically based) which we feel is
>> ready now for a broader audience. SmartGit is quite stable and we want to
>> invite everyone who is interested in giving it a try:
>>
>>  http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/index.html
>>
>> Please don't expect all Git features and options implemented. We have
>> tried to first concentrate on the most important ones - from our rather
>> novice Git perspective.
>>
>> SmartGit runs on all operating systems which support a full Java 1.5
>> implementation, including virtually all Linux versions, OS X 10.4 - 10.6 and
>> Windows 2000 or newer. It requires a Git installation, although a couple of
>> time-critical operations are handled by the JGit library.
>>
>> We appreciate your feed-back in our mailing list
>>
>>  http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/community.html
>>
>> or directly to us (smartgit@syntevo.com). SmartGit 1.0 is planned to be
>> released free of charge for non-commercial use or to active members of the
>> Open Source community. Each pre-release build expires 3 months after the
>> build-date.
>>
>> At this occasion I would also like to express my appreciation to the
>> community for this great DVCS you have built. Approx. a 3/4 year ago I've
>> started to use Git. Although I had some starting problems with it using the
>> Git command line (mostly on Windows), I need to say that over time I really
>> fell in love with Git and its elaborate foundations and feature set.
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Thomas Singer
>> =============
>> syntevo GmbH
>> http://www.syntevo.com
>> http://blog.syntevo.com
>>
>>
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>>
> 
> 
> 

> Hi James,
> 
> Thanks for reporting this serious error. I will try to fix this in the next
> hour and upload a new build.
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> Thomas Singer
> =============
> syntevo GmbH
> http://www.syntevo.com
> http://blog.syntevo.com
> 
> 
> James Sadler wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> I just launched SmartGit, and it ate my ~/.gitconfig.  Luckily I had a
>> backup (full of my own aliases and colour settings etc.).
>>
>> SmartGit replaced mine with a ~/.gitconfig containing _only_ my name
>> and email settings.  Not good.  I would bet that 99% of all people on
>> this list have their own customized version of ~/.gitconfig and
>> SmartGit is probably going to eat it.  If it helps, I am running OS X.
>>
>> James.
>>
>> 2009/9/19 Thomas Singer <thomas.singer@syntevo.com>:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We would like to announce a new milestone build of our Git client "SmartGit"
>>> (don't be offended by the name, it's historically based) which we feel is
>>> ready now for a broader audience. SmartGit is quite stable and we want to
>>> invite everyone who is interested in giving it a try:
>>>
>>>  http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/index.html
>>>
>>> Please don't expect all Git features and options implemented. We have
>>> tried to first concentrate on the most important ones - from our rather
>>> novice Git perspective.
>>>
>>> SmartGit runs on all operating systems which support a full Java 1.5
>>> implementation, including virtually all Linux versions, OS X 10.4 - 10.6 and
>>> Windows 2000 or newer. It requires a Git installation, although a couple of
>>> time-critical operations are handled by the JGit library.
>>>
>>> We appreciate your feed-back in our mailing list
>>>
>>>  http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/community.html
>>>
>>> or directly to us (smartgit@syntevo.com). SmartGit 1.0 is planned to be
>>> released free of charge for non-commercial use or to active members of the
>>> Open Source community. Each pre-release build expires 3 months after the
>>> build-date.
>>>
>>> At this occasion I would also like to express my appreciation to the
>>> community for this great DVCS you have built. Approx. a 3/4 year ago I've
>>> started to use Git. Although I had some starting problems with it using the
>>> Git command line (mostly on Windows), I need to say that over time I really
>>> fell in love with Git and its elaborate foundations and feature set.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best regards,
>>> Thomas Singer
>>> =============
>>> syntevo GmbH
>>> http://www.syntevo.com
>>> http://blog.syntevo.com
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
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