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

From: David <davvid@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 11, 2007, 13:48 UTC
Message-ID: <402731c90712110548k67f28b64w5afa93ee908ce73b@mail.gmail.com>

On Dec 4, 2007 3:00 AM, Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Qt puts a common face on threading, process control, networking, file
> systems, internationalisation, rendering, openGL, and of course the GUI
> itself.  Tcl/Tk (to take the most wicked example) gives you applications
> that are much harder to make run on Windows than on UNIX.
>
> Anyway, I don't want to sound like a strange Qt fan boy; the above is simply
> my justification for putting "git-gui in Qt" on my wish list.
>
> Andy
> --
> Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET
> andyparkins@gmail.com

For whatever it's worth, I've written a PyQt4-based git gui. For lack of a better name I call it ugit, as in "I git, you git, we all git with ugit" (or something silly like that).

Though there's still a few things remaining to be implemented, the bulk of the initial groundwork is already done. All you need to build/run it is python and pyqt4 (pyuic4). I've deliberately tried to keep the interface similar to git-gui for now since it is obviously based on it, but that's not a requirement.

Of course there are some notable things missing (such as proper i18n), but it's not too bad for a first draft.

For more details (and the code) see: http://repo.or.cz/w/ugit.git

Enjoy, -- David A.