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

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Nov 8, 2006, 06:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20061108060350.GE28498@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <17745.3287.358673.265578@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:

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> 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.

Right.  :-)

I have absolutely no plans (or desire) to attempt to do graph rendering in git-gui. The most I may do for showing history in it is perhaps a "git log --max-count=5 --pretty=oneline" type of display so the user can see more than just an empty window after a commit.

IMHO gitk does a very nice job of rendering the graph on a wide range of platforms (although it still has two annoying bugs: one on Windows and one on Mac OS X that really make it hard to use). git-gui is just an attempt to bring the other major features of Git to that same set of platforms, with the same set of dependencies (wish 8) and ease of use...

It would be nice if we can eventually connect gitk and git-gui so they can coordinate as you are talking about above...

> 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?

Yes, they are in my TODO list (or if missing from there are certainly in my head as things to add). I'd like to get git-gui finished this week, which means getting those features in today or tomorrow. :-) I'll probably do branches first though.