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> It looks the business but it lacks the single most important feature for popularity: a GUI.

It's a matter of perspective. My first thought when reading the docs was, "All someone needs to do is slap a GUI on this baby. Good thing the designers made a simple CLI that it could interface with."

They've already done most of the heavy lifting. At this point a GUI is trivial to add. "Terminal–first" doesn't imply "terminal-only". In fact, quite the opposite. I wouldn't be so quick to assume that they don't envision a GUI at some point-- Why not contribute to the project and get the ball rolling?

The patch command [0] has a propose subcommand that describes what you're talking about. It generates a patch from a commit (on any branch, I presume). This can be applied however you see fit. And the checkout subcommand even lets you generate branches from patches similar to GH. What seems to be missing?

[0] https://radicle.xyz/docs/#rad-cli-reference




I agree that the GUI situation is a glass-half-full sort of thing, I'm just saying it needs that as a priority if they want any network effect.

> The patch command [0] has a propose subcommand that describes what you're talking about.

Yeah but in the tutorial it says it will fail to work if you are on a different branch from master - I took it to mean that the patch command can only target the same branch it was generated on. If that's the case, obviously the maintainer can then do the manual merge-and-delete routine; I'm just saying that on github it's a one-click operation.


Hmm okay, I guess I'll just have to play around with it and see.




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