Re: [PATCH] gitk: Add "Refs" menu

From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date: Oct 12, 2005, 01:26 UTC
Message-ID: <1129080380.2427.21.camel@dv>
In-Reply-To: <17227.44393.412591.267878@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Hi, Paul!

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:17 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:

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> Pavel Roskin writes:
> 
> > This patch adds "Refs" menu to gitk.  It makes all branches, tags and
> > other ref objects appear as menu items.  Selecting one of the items
> > selects the corresponding line in the view.
> 
> Sorry I haven't responded before - I have got way behind with my email
> due to a vacation and to concentrating on the merge of the ppc32 and
> ppc64 kernel sources.  It will probably be a bit longer before I can
> get to look at this.

No problem.  Thank you for letting me know.

I'm not a GUI designer and I'm not experienced in Tcl/Tk, so I'll appreciate critical look at the patches.

I think that gitk should move away from being just a frontend to git-rev-list. There is more information in the repository, such as tags, branches, stgit patches etc. All this information needs to be represented in some way, and using the menu was just the first approach.

Browsing trees and opening files for a given commit would be great and helpful from developers migrating from CVS.

And making gitk cooperate with stgit would be a killer application not just for gitk and stgit, but for git itself (i.e. it could be the reason why git is chosen for development over e.g. Mercurial for new projects).

I don't want to distract you from PPC work, but your return to gitk development would be very welcome :-)

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin