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Re: [msysGit] Re: Fourth incarnation of the msysGit herald

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JHJan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Date
Oct 20, 2007, 18:19 UTC
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On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 20:04:20 +0200, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
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> On Oct 20, 2007, at 3:33 PM, Jan Hudec wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 00:25:49 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>> 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):
>
> What you propose is already there!

Nice. Thanks. Unfortunately I didn't yet have time to try out, and I didn't see it mentioned.

> Did you try the most recent setup?
>
> http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/Git-1.5.3-preview20071019.exe

No; I don't have loosedows here (at home), so I'll have to try it at work when I have a little time. I certainly will.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
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  1. Johannes SchindelinOct 19, 2007
  2. Jan HudecOct 20, 2007
  3. Steffen ProhaskaOct 20, 2007
  4. Jan HudecOct 20, 2007
  5. Jan HudecOct 26, 2007
  6. Pascal ObryOct 26, 2007
  7. Steffen ProhaskaOct 26, 2007
  8. Johannes SchindelinOct 26, 2007
  9. Pascal ObryOct 26, 2007

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