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

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 24, 2010, 12:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20100724125408.GA17481@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <20100724110239.GA13067@vidovic>

Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:

> What is the issue with the current status?

Here is one:

 $ git log --oneline -SListbox.font -- gitk-git/gitk
 $ git log --oneline --follow -SListbox.font -- gitk-git/gitk
 62ba514 Move gitk to its own subdirectory
 $ git log --oneline -SListbox.font -- gitk-git/gitk gitk
 207ad7b gitk: Set the font for all listbox widgets
 $

> Going this way, why would we want gitk and git-gui as submodules at all?

If we want to stop distributing them completely (though I am not convinced that would be a good idea), then submodules would be a good stopping point along the way to avoid changing the world too much at a time.

git archive hasn’t learned to do recursive archive yet; I think the last murmurs of that topic were [1] and [2], though it would be simple enough to use "git archive" more than once together with "tar rf" to take care of it by hand in this case.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107030 which is a reroll of http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/106788/focus=106787

[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/106788/focus=106787