From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:41:23 GMT
Subject: Re: 1.6.0: where is git-gui?
Message-ID: <20080821194123.GX3483@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080821193915.GK10819@cs-wsok.swansea.ac.uk>

Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann@swansea.ac.uk> wrote:
> I've read the release notes, but it didn't occur
> to me that "git-gui" is part of "git" --- I assumed
> it would be, like "gitk", a different program (which
> just be chance is using the same naming convention
> like "git-clone" etc.).

Well, it really is a separate program, just like gitk is.

But its name being "git-gui" and not "gitgui" is not by
accident.  I chose it to fit into the "git foo" naming
scheme used by the core tools, so it fit better into the
overall user experience.  Ditto with "git citool".

-- 
Shawn.