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Re: Modern Git GUI

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John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 25, 2010, 14:30 UTC
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2010/1/25 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
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> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
>> If you decide to go on with your project, either you want to carry it
>> out alone, or you'll have to convince other developers to join. In the
>> second case, a good starting point would be to explain why the other GUI
>> are not good enough, and why you can't just contribute to them.
>
> Actually, a much better way would be to be positive, not negative.  I.e.
> to show something you did, which hopefully entices others to use your
> project (and maybe contribute to it).

Actually in this case, I don't think that would be good enough. My first thought would be "why didn't he just add this feature to an existing GUI rather than reinventing the wheel yet again". So there would really have to be good reasons why the other GUIs aren't a good enough starting point

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Message 5 of 8 in “Modern Git GUI”
  1. André HarmsJan 23, 2010
  2. Matthieu MoyJan 24, 2010
  3. André HarmsJan 24, 2010
  4. Johannes SchindelinJan 25, 2010
  5. John TapsellJan 25, 2010
  6. Michael J GruberJan 26, 2010
  7. Guilhem BonnefilleJan 26, 2010
  8. Maxime LévesqueJan 28, 2010

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