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Document mouse-free installation with Homebrew

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I’m setting up a new machine. I took a gamble and typed brew cask install github-desktop and it worked! I think displaying this keyboard-friendly installation option to macOS visitors would be appreciated.

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Created 6 years ago
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mathieudutourcommented, Jul 21, 2017

also I find it weird to promote a mouse-free installation for a tool targeting people that don’t like the git cli haha

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bbgdzxng1commented, Aug 17, 2017

Brew Cask is awesome for GUI apps on macOS. The code for the community supported Github Desktop installer is available at https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/github-desktop.rb

The Brew Cask community update the github-desktop script very soon after each stable release. An interesting question is whether this could be officially supported. It is only as complex as calculating and updating the SHA-1 checksum and version on each stable release. This certainly could be automated at build-time with some github magic.

brew cask reinstall github-desktop and brew cask reinstall atom has been the fastest way to upgrade while “auto-update for non-admin user” has been broken in Squirrel.Mac. Thankfully, there is now light at the end of the tunnel thanks to the work of the Github Desktop team in fixing https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Mac/issues/131.

If the documentation for Github Desktop did reference brew for macOS users, it should also reference the equally awesome chocolatey https://chocolatey.org/packages/github-desktop for Windows users.

For unattended install on Windows using the community supported Chocolatey package manager: c:\> choco install github-desktop

For unattended install on macOS using the community supported Homebrew package manager: $ brew cask install github-desktop

And obviously, apt install github-desktop when the time comes to merge the Linux ports into the main project. :insert-emoji

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