{"thread":{"id":"22770","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Create /gitk as a symlink to gitk-git/gitk-wish.","startedAt":"2010-02-23T18:47:41Z","lastAt":"2010-02-23T21:56:35Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Avery Pennarun","Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"135450","messageId":"32541b131002231047y4dc49f85s56ba91e6bc7bf16c@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"22770","inReplyTo":"1266536738-2933-1-git-send-email-apenwarr@gmail.com","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Create /gitk as a symlink to gitk-git/gitk-wish.","fromName":"Avery Pennarun","fromEmail":"apenwarr@gmail.com","sentAt":"2010-02-23T18:47:41Z","receivedAt":"2010-02-23T18:47:41Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"apenwarr@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/20592?v=4"},"body":"On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:\n> In earlier versions of git, you could add the git source dir to your PATH\n> and the 'gitk' command would work.  At some point, this stopped working\n> because the file formerly known as gitk is now gitk-git/gitk-wish.\n>\n> Have the Makefile automatically generate a symlink to it when building, to\n> restore the earlier functionality.\n>\n> Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>\n\nAny comments on this one?\n\nAvery\n"},{"id":"135477","messageId":"7vtyt7ehv0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"22770","inReplyTo":"32541b131002231047y4dc49f85s56ba91e6bc7bf16c@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Create /gitk as a symlink to gitk-git/gitk-wish.","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2010-02-23T21:56:35Z","receivedAt":"2010-02-23T21:56:35Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:\n\n> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:\n>> In earlier versions of git, you could add the git source dir to your PATH\n>> and the 'gitk' command would work.  At some point, this stopped working\n>> because the file formerly known as gitk is now gitk-git/gitk-wish.\n>>\n>> Have the Makefile automatically generate a symlink to it when building, to\n>> restore the earlier functionality.\n>>\n>> Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>\n>\n> Any comments on this one?\n\nTo be honest, I am not terribly interested, as it seems to affect only\npeople who build from source.  They know what they are doing and are\nassumed to be capable of adjusting the environments for testing and\ndeveloping git.\n\nHaving said that, adding anything missing to bin-wrappers/ would make more\nsense these days, I think.\n"}]}