Consider renaming and rebranding this fork of Gitx

[schwa]

The situation with original (unmaintained?) fork of gitx causes great confusion. There are many forks with decent amounts of commits but it's very hard for a gitx user to find the right one unless he/she is keeping a keen eye on the development. Try telling a user looking for a Mac OS X graphical git client to "just download gitx" (1).

My suggestion is to rename the project to take away the confusion and give the app a new icon.

Alternatively how about working with the original gitx authors to make this fork the "blessed" fork?

1: https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_rn=1&gs_ri=hp&tok=Ln0YyutWWGRd4PnhpiTwig&cp=4&gs_id=e&xhr=t&q=gitx&pf=p&safe=off&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&oq=gitx&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.1357700187,d.cGE&fp=7ae572cd2899a212&biw=1027&bih=1220

[joehoyle]

+1 for something like this, I only just found this fork after using gitx for years - very glad to see it supports submodules in git 1.7+ repos. It would be good to make this "fork" more discoverable somehow

[josharian]

👍

[josharian]

FYI, I've started a discussion about this over at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/gitx/5DtfImXvgfI

[rowanj]

Thanks for starting the discussion thread, @josharian - I'll weigh in soon.

Just quickly, I have no objections to either rebranding or working with the upstream GitX crowd.

[josharian]

FYI, Pieter weighed in favorably in that email thread. I think the biggest open question here is whether @rowanj wants to be in the hot seat. :)

[jucor]

+1, that would be great: I stumbled upon this awesome fork more or less randomly, and spread the word in my office -- many had never found it, and found only the abandoned versions.

[jucor]

Just saw @rowanj 's post on the google groups: brilliant.

[j15e]

+1, any update on this? Seems like the last update is the last post 5 months ago on the google group.