Re: Fourth incarnation of the msysGit herald
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- Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
- Date
- Oct 20, 2007, 13:33 UTC
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- <20071020133359.GB19521@efreet.light.src>
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- <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710200024460.25221@racer.site>
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 00:25:49 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> git gui > ======= > > git gui is a really nice program, and as I often said, I consider it > more porcelain than a gui, since it uses the git core directly, instead > of wrapping around porcelain commands. > > The user experience I had with git gui made me think that this should > be the primary interface Windows users should be confronted with, not > the command line. > > The major problem we had in msysGit is that git-gui was to be launched > from the Start Menu, or a QuickLaunch icon. This is in contrast to > the shell, where you usually start git gui in a working directory.
It would be nice to install an entry in the explorer menu to run git-gui in a selected directory. It can be done by just writing something like to the registry (completely untested -- I just looked it up on the internet):
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\Git Gui] @="Git Gui"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\Git Gui\command] @="git --git-dir=%L gui"
(The directory is passed in %L, but git --git-gui="dir" gui seems to work, at least on Linux. It needs absolute path, but you'll have that.)
-- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>