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by Aqua_Geek 5090 days ago
What else would you like to see? (I write an iOS GitHub app and am curious what people find most helpful.)
3 comments

I personally would love the ability to see commit history and browse through diffs for commits, pull requests, and branch comparisons.

When I'm going into a client's office to spend the day working with them, one of the first things I do is spend 10-15 minutes perusing the commit history to see what's changed in the 4-5 days since I last looked at their codebase. I'd love to be able to do that, as well as do code reviews, on the bus/subway on the way into the office.

Couldn't you do that from your computer the night before?
Free time at home is much more valuable than free time on the bus.
Really strong support for code reviews.
This is what I need to. For when I'm sitting on the train, would be really useful to read through the commits from the day & mark ones for further review.
ability to edit files in-app
That sounds hard and error prone. I'd like to see at the very least, sequential commit messages for a topic. Commit diffs would be nice too.
maybe; but only reason I would use such an app.