git-cola.app from Homebrew

[Chris Carter]

OS X 10.9 Mavericks

The README says to just "make git-cola.app," and move the resulting app bundle to /Applications, but Homebrew doesn't leave me with a Makefile and I don't think I should install both from Homebrew and from source. Should I uninstall the Homebrew copy and install from source to get an app bundle? I was hoping for package management, though.

[David Aguilar]

Homebrew should install one in e.g. /usr/local/bin/git-cola;
I don't think it provides an application bundle.

homebrew always lags a little behind so pulling from source is
not a bad idea. You don't have to install the source, just run
it in-place.

The point of using homebrew is that it handles the Qt4
and PyQt4 dependencies. How you then run git-cola is up to you.
--
David

[Diek Kearney]

That second part of the readme file instructing to make, lead to some serious confusion. I figured it out, but there is no git-cola.app created, just an alias to /usr/local/Cellar/git-cola/1.9.4/bin. This launches the gui.

[David Aguilar]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Diek Kearney <diekro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, December 1, 2013 9:38:01 PM UTC-4, David Aguilar wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 03:46:13PM -0800, Chris Carter wrote:
>> > OS X 10.9 Mavericks
>> >
>> > The README says to just "make git-cola.app," and move the resulting app
>> > bundle
>> > to /Applications, but Homebrew doesn't leave me with a Makefile and I
>> > don't
>> > think I should install both from Homebrew and from source. Should I
>> > uninstall
>> > the Homebrew copy and install from source to get an app bundle? I was
>> > hoping
>> > for package management, though.
>>
>> Homebrew should install one in e.g. /usr/local/bin/git-cola;
>> I don't think it provides an application bundle.
>>
>> homebrew always lags a little behind so pulling from source is
>> not a bad idea. You don't have to install the source, just run
>> it in-place.
>>
>> The point of using homebrew is that it handles the Qt4
>> and PyQt4 dependencies. How you then run git-cola is up to you.
>
> That second part of the readme file instructing to make, lead to some
> serious confusion. I figured it out, but there is no git-cola.app created,
> just an alias to /usr/local/Cellar/git-cola/1.9.4/bin. This launches the
> gui.

Sorry about that, maybe the Mac OS X/Homebrew section should be
delineated better.

Patches/merge requests are highly appreciated ;-) (hint hint)
--
David

[Adrien Be]

Agreed. That second part is super confusing ^^

The wording should be much more explicit, maybe something like:

Once brew has installed git-cola you can:

 1. Clone git-cola from the repo (git clone git://github.com/git-cola/git-cola.git)

 2. build the git-cola.app application bundle (make git-cola.app)

 3. copy it to /Applications (cp git-cola.app /Applications)

[David Aguilar]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 06:41:32AM -0700, Adrien Be wrote:
> Agreed. That second part is super confusing ^^
>
> The wording should be much more explicit, maybe something like:
>
> Once brew has installed git-cola you can:
> 1. Clone git-cola from the repo (git clone git://github.com/git-cola/
> git-cola.git)
> 2. build the git-cola.app application bundle (make git-cola.app)
> 3. copy it to /Applications (cp git-cola.app /Applications)

That sounds good to me too. Pull request, please! ;-)

cheers,
--
David

[Adrien Be]

in progress ;) https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/pull/426