From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:09:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] "Recursive Make considered harmful"
Message-ID: <42E91151.7060004@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk6jac2cv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
...
> While I agree gitk should not come as part of git package, this
> brings up a different issue.
> 
> Ideally, I'd want to see gitk packaged from its repository
> kernel.org:/pub/scm/gitk/git.git/ Paul Mackerras maintains, not
> from GIT one which _will_ lag behind.
> 
...
> 
> While I _do_ rely on gitk in my git work, and I _do_ like its
> simplicity (just a single file right now), my longer term
> preference is to drop the copy we have in git tree and treat it
> just like the other repository browser, qgit.  Our documentation
> should point people at it as part of the Porcelain suite.

Then this should happen sooner rather than later.