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

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JSJason Sewall <jasonsewall@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 12, 2007, 15:02 UTC
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On Dec 12, 2007 12:23 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> > I use git-gui and gitk for my git graphical needs because they rock
> > and at the end of the day, the fonts and antialiasing aren't that big
> > of a deal, especially since I'm usually doing quick scans and searches
> > over the information those tools display, not reading novels in them.
>
> Good points.  Features win over pretty most of the time.  But at
> some point pretty is important; especially to new user adoption.
> Plus if you are looking at it all day long it shouldn't be jarring
> to the eyes.  But git-gui still isn't even where I want it ot
> be feature-wise.  E.g. I'd *love* to teach it inotify support,
> so you don't even need to have that Rescan button.

On that note, did you see what I wrote above, about having "split hunk" functionality? That would be killer. I know, I know, I should write a patch... well, I've got a paper deadline coming up, and the time it takes me to run git add -i over some clicks in git-gui plus the time to figure out how to add that feature doesn't balance...

Jason
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Message 10 of 31 in “[ANNOUNCE] ugit: a pyqt-based git gui // was: Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?”
  1. DavidDec 11, 2007
  2. Marco CostalbaDec 11, 2007
  3. Jason SewallDec 11, 2007
  4. Marco CostalbaDec 11, 2007
  5. DavidDec 11, 2007
  6. Jason SewallDec 11, 2007
  7. Shawn O. PearceDec 12, 2007
  8. Jason SewallDec 12, 2007
  9. Shawn O. PearceDec 12, 2007
  10. Jason SewallDec 12, 2007
  11. Johannes SchindelinDec 12, 2007
  12. Jason SewallDec 12, 2007
  13. Teach git-gui to split hunksJohannes Schindelin, Dec 12, 2007
  14. Junio C HamanoDec 12, 2007
  15. Johannes SchindelinDec 12, 2007
  16. Jean-François VeilletteDec 12, 2007
  17. Junio C HamanoDec 12, 2007
  18. Wincent ColaiutaDec 12, 2007
  19. Johannes SixtDec 13, 2007
  20. Shawn O. PearceDec 13, 2007
  21. Johannes SchindelinDec 13, 2007
  22. Junio C HamanoDec 13, 2007
  23. Johannes SixtDec 13, 2007
  24. Johannes SchindelinDec 13, 2007
  25. Johannes SixtDec 13, 2007
  26. Johannes SchindelinDec 13, 2007
  27. git-gui: Move frequently used commands to the top of the context menu.Johannes Sixt, Dec 13, 2007
  28. Shawn O. PearceDec 14, 2007
  29. Alex RiesenDec 11, 2007
  30. Steffen ProhaskaDec 11, 2007
  31. Jakub NarebskiDec 12, 2007

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