Re: [PATCH] checkout: allow full refnames for local branches

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: May 9, 2007, 20:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20070509201105.GF3141@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580705091301s19dcd2e0q20a4c84e3dd23d82@mail.gmail.com>

Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 5/9/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> >If you are building "porcelain" to sit over Git and offer up a pretty
> >view of things, I would encourage you to avoid the stock porcelain.
> >Don't use git-checkout, its stock porcelain.  Instead go right to
> >the plumbing.  The plumbing doesn't really change behavior as often
> >(if ever).
> 
> Thanks, I probably will (also to avoid the shell scripts, since my
> porcelain is aimed at my co-workers who are stuck on windows)

Are you building a strictly Win32 native GUI? Or something else? Can I ask what sort of features you are going after? (And if there's a git repository available, feel free to just point me at it and ignore my questions.)

I'm just curious. We seem to have a lot of user interface projects going on at once right now (Eclipse plugin, git-gui, gitk, qgit, tig, gitweb, blameview) and everyone's been learning from each other. I think the competition is good, there's no clear right way to do things here. As the primary author of git-gui, I do want to try and keep current with what the others are up to. ;-)

-- 
Shawn.