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Ask HN: Lightweight desktop client for managing pull requests?

by pfych on 7/29/24, 2:04 AM with 7 comments

I'm frequently working on the go where I'll only have 1-2 bars of 4G/5G and the web UI for BitBucket is extremely slow.

I'm looking for a desktop app that would let me make and manage Pull Requests in Bitbucket from my local machine, without my web browser. Preferably free or with a lifetime purchase option. A quick search doesn't really turn up anything.

  • by solardev on 7/29/24, 5:45 AM

    I know that Jetbrains can do this inside the IDEs if you use Github, but I'm not sure if it also supports Bitbucket. Have you checked already?

    There was also a VScode extension for something similar, but also for Github unfortunately.

  • by leros on 7/31/24, 2:30 PM

    I don't know if it's lightweight or not but I like the GitKraken app. I use it very occasionally when I need to do something advanced or tricky.

  • by cheptsov on 7/29/24, 7:29 PM

    JetBrains PyCharm has this out of the box. VSCode has a nice extension [1]

    1. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.v...

  • by dysoco on 7/29/24, 4:15 PM

    I haven't used it in years but you might want to check out Sublime Merge; it's from the developers of Sublime Text which is known for being lightweight and having good performance.