Re: rfc - Changing the way gitk and git-gui are managed

From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
Date: Jul 24, 2010, 11:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20100724110239.GA13067@vidovic>
In-Reply-To: <7vocdygbw0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

The 22/07/10, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Somebody off-list suggested removing gitk and git-gui directories from my
> repository and I've been playing with the idea and kind of like the end
> result.

What is the issue with the current status?

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> The plan (I am not decided to buy into it yet, hence I am sending this
> rfc) is to:
> 
>     - remove gitk-git and git-gui directories;
>     - add modules/gitk and modules/git-gui submodules;
>     - teach the top-level Makefile about the new location of these two
>       packages.

Going this way, why would we want gitk and git-gui as submodules at all? They are porcelain tools as many other not in git.git.

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Nicolas Sebrecht