From: Jason Sewall Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:02:44 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ugit: a pyqt-based git gui // was: Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change? Message-ID: <31e9dd080712120702k36a959cfh3e2a5c5fb076d922@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071212052329.GR14735@spearce.org> On Dec 12, 2007 12:23 AM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > 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