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Show HN: Disco – Easy GitHub Browsing

41 pointscjwoodward9 comments

Disco is tiny app I built over the weekend to try and make browsing git better.

Inspired heavily by Tower, it also adds pull request integration and is run in the browser. It's only for public repositories.

Checkout:

http://disco.88cartell.com/#/rails/rails

http://disco.88cartell.com/#/emberjs/ember.js

http://disco.88cartell.com/#/angular/angular.js

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It'd be cool if it could store the repo's files in localstorage so I could load it up before I get on a plane, or if I'm saving battery life by disabling the radios. Perhaps a totally different use case than your target audience, I don't know.

There's an iOS App named NapCat that will pull down repos so you can browse the code at your leisure. Doesn't let you view commits and the file diffs, like you can with Disco.

In my mind: Disco for keeping up with what's happening and what files they happened to; NapCat for reading source for those times when the pleasure of a little light reading is in order :)

> It'd be cool if it could store the repo's files in localstorage so I could load it up before I get on a plane, or if I'm saving battery life by disabling the radios. Perhaps a totally different use case than your target audience, I don't know.

`git clone`?

Can see the inspiration from the git gui clients (you said Tower, which is probably the same as git-cola), which is fantastic.

This looks great.

edit.

If there is no master, and only one branch, is it possible to go to that branch?

Is it also possible to hide merges?

Is it also opensource?

Hi, it is open source.

https://github.com/carlwoodward/disco

I like the interface. Couple things, * add browsing by arrow keys (down for going to next commit etc.) * Clicking on the modified file took me to github, I expected it to drop down like clicking on the black arrow. Better provide a separate link to take the user to github imo.

Looks like you are fetching only first 25 branches or so? The project I work on has a lot of unmerged branches (some of them are old experiments nobody deletes) and `master` is not even in the list :)

Nice concept :) Agree with shk re: keyboard navigation. Also, images don't seem to be working in diffs.

just fyi, there is an open source projects called disco: https://github.com/discoproject/disco/ http://disco.88cartell.com/#/discoproject/disco

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