Murky: A Mercurial Client App
After repeated prodding, I’ve finally gotten off my butt and released Murky, a GUI client app for the Mercurial version-control system. I’ve been working on it for over a year, and using it a lot myself; I had always planned to open-source it “when it’s ready”, but never actually got around to doing the necessary cleanup and uploading.
I’m happy to say that Murky is finally blinking in the light of day, with its own Mercurial [natch] repository on Bitbucket.
Setting Expectations
Murky isn’t “done”, and this isn’t a 1.0, or even a beta, release. I’m not even providing a compiled app to download, just the source repository. No one but me has ever tested it. About nine months ago Murky became “good enough” for what I usually do, and I’m a happy customer, but I’ve lost the impetus to keep adding things to it. I hope some other people will grab the baton and improve it further. Then we can throw a party for a real 1.0 release, with several names on the About box.
Obligatory Screenshot
Features
Here’s what it can do so far:
- Create a new repository from an existing folder
- Clone a remote (or local) repository
- View the revision history (log) of a repo as a table view, complete with * a visual graph showing the inheritance of revisions
- View the source tree, and the contents of files, from any past revision
- See which files were changed, added or removed in any revision
- Compare revisions of files, either visually with FileMerge, or as straight ‘diff’ output
- Add or remove files from the local working tree
- Commit (or revert) changed files
- Update to a specific revision (past or present)
- Push to or pull from remote repositories
- Automatically detects filesystem changes made by other apps (or by the ‘hg’ tool) and updates the display immediately
February 25th, 2010 at 5:46 AM
hi, after a long trying period, I have had control on Murky :) cool app!! Appreciate your work and time so much! thanks again!
ps, how can I ignore files at commiting? i have some files like config.php, conn.php … and these are different at server and localhost. so how can i make murky to ignore some files?
thanks again!
February 25th, 2010 at 4:40 PM
art.mania: Glad you got it to work! But this blog isn’t a support forum. You can ask questions about the Murky app itself on its mailing list, although questions about Mercurial itself probably belong on a Mercurial mailing list. (In the case of your question, the answer is the “.hgignore” file. Please read the free Mercurial guide book for details.)
March 14th, 2010 at 4:32 AM
Thank you so much for this amazing app! I startet out with ObjC a few months ago and was planning to write something like this myself to manage my bitbucket-projects. Anyway, I think this app is more than I (with my current knowledge) could have written. Thanks!