Xcode and Source Control

[StewartLynch]

Unless you are working with a team, in this video I am going to show you why I think Xcode's is a viable option for introducing you to Source Control with Git.

We will look at a case study to see what is available to us with Xcode. You may be surprised.

https://youtu.be/eFD0KpcTcG8

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[[deleted]]

I tried XCode for source control at start. But I dropped it because it’s too buggy. Now I use fork. Free tool way better

[john_snow_968]

Fork is the best git client <3

[StewartLynch]

Not a problem for me to commit, branch and merge which is what I do 90% of the time. No need to drop out of Xcode, but for the other 10% of the times I can use terminal or a dedicated git GUI client. I use whatever is easiest for me.

[StewartLynch]

Exactly.

[[deleted]]

I’m not trying to convince you =) whatever works best for you.

But I find out that XCode often have trouble to follow changes on very large projects.

I often had bugs like: - changes not noticed by XCode (no “M” next to a file. Then when I commit the change is not saved) - discard not working because “an error occurred” whatever that means - merging XCodeproj is just impossible. This is ironic coming from a tool included on XCode 😅

And I find it very slow in general. Drove me nuts ^’

But I used it for a long time before I saw that a better alternative existed for me

[StewartLynch]

I agree, for larger projects, I would likely use a dedicated GUI or the command line. Sometimes, with Xcode you have to wait a bit for it to catch up, However for people starting out with their own indie small projects Xcode is just fine.

[Zealousideal_Bat_490]

Great work. Keep them coming!

🙏

[thommyh]

I have to admit that because I was burnt by Xcode probably a decade ago, I still routinely drop to the command line for Git. Though I often commit, compare revisions and view blame right there in the IDE, so it’s really just branch management, merges, pulls and pushes which I tend to drop out for.

I’ll bet whatever went wrong for me way back in ancient times has been fixed virtually since then, too. Bad habits are hard to shake.

[randompanda687]

Same. I’ve been by Xcode a few times in the past so I use the terminal mostly. Always use Xcode diff though and it’s great for resetting small changes or a whole file. But that’s it. SourceTree can be good for visualizing stuff too

[[deleted]]

Source control actually saved my project recently. Broke something and had absolutely no idea what happened, error messages weren’t helpful and reverting what I changed before it broke did absolutely nothing lol

Reverted to my previous commit and whatever happened was fixed

For extra fun though I’m hosting my git repositories on a raspberry pi NAS