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[PATCH 2/3] doc: gitk: add the upstream repo location

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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date
Jan 12, 2017, 21:32 UTC
Message-ID
<20170112213240.7972-3-philipoakley@iee.org>
In-Reply-To
<20170112213240.7972-1-philipoakley@iee.org>

Match the 'git gui' information regarding the graphical browser and its upstream location.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
---
cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
---
 Documentation/gitk.txt | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitk.txt b/Documentation/gitk.txt
index 73c02b9..9244379 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitk.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitk.txt
@@ -178,9 +178,15 @@ used by default. If '$XDG_CONFIG_HOME' is not set it defaults to
 History
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 Gitk was the first graphical repository browser. It's written in
-tcl/tk and started off in a separate repository but was later merged
-into the main Git repository.
+tcl/tk.
 
+'gitk' is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable
+versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convenience
+of end users.
+
+gitk-git/ comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project:
+
+        git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk
 
 SEE ALSO
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