GitHub for Unity 0.19-alpha released

Our GitHub for Unity 0.19-alpha “Swashbuckler” release is now available with much improved Mac support, bug fixes, and performance improvements—many added by the community.

Here are a few highlights since our last Unity update.

Improved macOS support

GitHub for Unity for Mac should now have the same features and functionality (and bugs!) as the Windows version. Thanks to a custom fork of Axosoft’s NSFW library, our SFW Library provides us with a file watcher to refresh the UI consistently across platforms.

No more garbled commit messages!�

Say goodbye to all those �s that you may have seen in your commit history. Thanks to @shiena, commit messages will start looking less like:

I � UNICODE!

And more like:

I ♥ UNICODE!

Thanks also to Dazzle for your commitment to open source.

Commit with style

Thanks again to @shiena, commit logs will now follow the recommended style, meaning they’ll look a lot less like this:

Increase the health of baddies by 1.75
Beta testers reported that defeating the baddies felt too easy.

And a lot more like this:

Increase the health of baddies by 1.75

Beta testers reported that defeating the baddies felt too easy.

This is beneficial for a variety of reasons, but consider the one person on your team who’s still using the command line. Commands like git log and git shortlog will be a lot more useful when the commit subject and body are clearly separated:

$ git log
commit 651733e0206a4a0c1b0e24d4a5b9e7c5973d47bf
Author: Lee Reilly <lee@github.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 24 13:37:00 2017 -0200

 Add Discord library

 Our players want to talk to one another, so this adds some basic
 integration to provide (1) basic text chat and (2) experimental
 voice chat.

commit fcf7d51d8d6d172e3d241cdbe7180f0a303e9292
Author: Don Okuda <don@github.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 23 21:18:28 2017 -0700

 Added some baddies

 Beta testers reported that defeating the baddies felt too easy.

Refactoring

Finally, @MunchyYDL applied best practices to our views and picked up the first of our up-for-grabs issues—specifically, using EditorGUI.BeginDisabledGroup() and EditorGUI.EndDisabledGroup() rather than setting GUI.enabled().

Oh, and congratulations on your first pull request, @MunchyYDL!

You’ll find the complete list of new features, improvements, and bug fixes in the release notes. Many thanks to our community for your contributions during the alpha.

Please note: If you’re upgrading to the latest version, the plugin location has moved to Assets/Plugins/GitHub. You’ll need to exit Unity completely and delete the Assets/Editor/GitHub folder before installing the latest version. Hey, we told you it was an alpha.

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Written by

Lee Reilly

@leereilly

Developer / Marketing / Community at GitHub. Twitter: https://twitter.com/leereilly.