Re: [ANNOUNCE] ugit: a pyqt-based git gui // was: Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?

From: Jason Sewall <jasonsewall@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 11, 2007, 21:29 UTC
Message-ID: <31e9dd080712111329j2c8b22ebs38ab727a5fbe85fb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <402731c90712111254q1cb99c6al47538971d93b4592@mail.gmail.com>

On Dec 11, 2007 3:54 PM, David <davvid@gmail.com> wrote:

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> > On Dec 11, 2007 8:14 PM, Jason Sewall <jasonsewall@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I re-installed without the prefix and that error disappeared, but now I get
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/local/bin/ugit", line 12, in <module>
> >     view = GitView (app.activeWindow())
> >   File "../py/views.py", line 15, in __init__
> >   File "default/ui/Window.py", line 43, in setupUi
> > AttributeError: setLeftMargin
>
> As for the setLeftMarginError -- That could be because you have py/qt
> 4.2.  The ui files were generated with designer-qt4 (4.3.x) so you
> might need a more recent pyqt4.  I'll see if I can grab an older
> version of pyqt and use it for all of the ui designs  (.ui files are
> probably forward but not backwards compatible).

That was it - as a matter of fact, the package updater for my distro was asking me to upgrade.

Well done, though I don't think I'm going to abandon git-gui quite yet.

The most valuable thing git-gui does, IMHO, is give you fine control over what you stage in a commit. The two-paned view of staged and unstaged changes with the view of the actual changes makes it really easy to see exactly what you are committing. And the graphical "{Un}stage hunk for commit" business, which ugit seems to lack so far, is really excellent - it's much easier to use than git add -i for partial adds.

I would like to see git add -i's hunk-splitting functionality in a graphical tool for that matter.

Anyway, ugit is very good for a first draft; its text display beats whats in git-gui in a big way (and I would *hope* qt4 would beat Tcl/Tk at that at least).

One suggestion: For Westerners like me, having "staged" on the left and "unstaged" on the right seems a little unnatural; I'd be curious to hear others' opinions on that.

Jason