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Re: git-show --stat on first commit

From
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Nov 21, 2006, 16:47 UTC
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<20061121164717.GB22006@spearce.org>
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0611210820100.3338@woody.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
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> So having a config option would solve the problem, but what annoys me 
> right now about the config options is that we really should have a 
> graphical front-end to setting those things or something, because while 
> _I_ don't have any issues with editing a ".git/config" file, I think we're 
> getting to the point where a lot of our problems are really about "you can 
> do it, but you have to know a lot about git to even know you can do it".

Funny; I recently thought about rewriting Documentation/config.txt into a format that was not only easily read by asciidoc but which also had enough annotation data to render a Tk based UI from.

That way we could always have the configuration option editor match the current set of configuration options, and also offer good help for them. E.g. use a checkbox for booleans, a tk_optionMenu for choice lists, and offer up the asciidoc text as "help" on the option.

Its sort of in the back of my mind as something I'd like to do in git-gui, but right now branch management (creating, deleting, merging) is more important.

Right now git-gui does have a GUI editor for its own configuration data that it keeps in "gui" sections of .git/config and ~/.gitconfig, and lets the user view and edit both.

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Message 8 of 35 in “git-show --stat on first commit”
  1. Andy ParkinsNov 21, 2006
  2. Jakub NarebskiNov 21, 2006
  3. Santi BéjarNov 21, 2006
  4. Peter BaumannNov 21, 2006
  5. Jakub NarebskiNov 21, 2006
  6. Peter BaumannNov 21, 2006
  7. Linus TorvaldsNov 21, 2006
  8. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  9. Peter BaumannNov 21, 2006
  10. Linus TorvaldsNov 21, 2006
  11. Olivier GalibertNov 21, 2006
  12. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  13. Petr BaudisNov 21, 2006
  14. Petr BaudisNov 21, 2006
  15. Jakub NarebskiNov 21, 2006
  16. Petr BaudisNov 21, 2006
  17. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  18. Andy ParkinsNov 21, 2006
  19. Petr BaudisNov 21, 2006
  20. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  21. Petr BaudisNov 21, 2006
  22. Junio C HamanoNov 21, 2006
  23. Jakub NarebskiNov 21, 2006
  24. Andy ParkinsNov 23, 2006
  25. Jakub NarebskiNov 24, 2006
  26. config option core.showroot to enable showing the diff of the root commitPeter Baumann, Nov 23, 2006
  27. Junio C HamanoNov 23, 2006
  28. Peter BaumannNov 23, 2006
  29. Junio C HamanoNov 24, 2006
  30. Junio C HamanoNov 24, 2006
  31. Peter BaumannNov 24, 2006
  32. Junio C HamanoNov 24, 2006
  33. Peter BaumannNov 24, 2006
  34. Carl WorthNov 21, 2006
  35. Junio C HamanoNov 21, 2006

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