Re: [RFC] git-gui: A commit / fetch / push interface

From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Nov 7, 2006, 22:46 UTC
Message-ID: <17745.3287.358673.265578@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061107083603.GB9622@spearce.org>

Shawn Pearce writes:

> I liked it and wanted to start making it available to some folks I
> work with who are more comfortable with the mouse than they are with
> the keyboard.  At first I tried fixing a few of the outstanding bugs
> in gitool but I eventually wound up rewriting the thing from scratch.

Cool!

> I have posted a repository with the source on pasky's service:
> 
> 	http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git

Shouldn't the "w" be "r" there? It gave me an error "Can't lock ref" with the "w".

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> My goal is to have enough operations available through git-gui that
> the average user won't need to leave it, unless he/she needs to do a
> cherry-pick, am, etc. type of operation.  Or they want to browse the
> history, in which case they can just start gitk from within git-gui.
> I'm hoping to have most of it done this week.  :-)

One thing I have been meaning to do is to integrate gitool into gitk, now that gitk can display a fake commit showing the local changes. I intend to add a menu item to gitk saying "Commit local changes" or something, which would invoke gitool, or maybe now git-gui instead. :) The nice thing is that then gitk could update the graph to show the new commit once it was created.

My current version of gitool also has menus that let you revert modified files, and delete or ignore untracked files. Have you considered adding that to git-gui?

Regards,