Re: git-gui ignores core.hooksPath

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Jul 10, 2018, 15:18 UTC
Message-ID: <2314380CD5BB4E75AD989D7CAC2EB93B@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1807101405570.75@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

From: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>

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> Hi Phillip,
>
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2017, Philipp Gortan wrote:
>
>> thanks for following up,
>>
>> > Indeed. Why don't you give it a try?
>>
>> Actually, I already did: https://github.com/patthoyts/git-gui/pull/12
>>
>> You might want to post your analysis and patch there as well...
>
> I wonder what good posting my analysis did, if nothing changed as a
> consequence.
>
> FWIW I opened this PR with Git for Windows to fix it properly:
>
> https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/1757
>
> I plan on consolidating all of the PRs at
> https://github.com/patthoyts/git-gui, too, and to try to get them into
> git.git.

>        I guess that means that I just volunteered as interim maintainer
> of the git-gui repository. However, I will really act as maintainer, not
> as "cleaner upper".

"Curator" is a useful intermediate level concept between active maintenance and passive benign neglect, if that term is a help...

-- Philip