[hgo]

I love it. Would feel more comfortable with a bash source-file I could copy than an installer tbh.

This reminds me, as I suppose you expect, of a lovely ssh-based chat service i saw on here a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8743374

[k00b]

Thanks! I agree. I want to provide more client-side options eventually (e.g. a static binary or pick your language flavor cli), but had a bunch of tradeoffs to consider for first pass. I'll likely open source the client side and keep the ssh api backward compatible, so perhaps this can happen soon.

Re: ssh-based chat. I found that post very very early on while exploring gitern as just an idea! Very formative of gitern.

[mst]

For a hacker's client to github, I'd recommend having a look at ingydotnet's git-hub which is bash + his json-bash thing.

Interesting prior art and maybe some stealable concepts :D

[k00b]

Wonderful!

[monkeycantype]

Yes, I'm sorry to say I feel the same. I set up my public key with you, but not willing to run a strange new executable on my machine

[k00b]

https://gitern.com/#downloads now provides a posix shell script for those that prefer it