Re: Merge git-gui into 1.5.0 ?

From: Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
Date: Feb 11, 2007, 14:57 UTC
Message-ID: <45CF2EBC.8070107@verizon.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070211084030.GE2082@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> One of my goals for git-gui is to get it merged into core Git, so
> there is a GUI tool available out-of-the-box for commit creation,
> (some) branch manipulation, basic merging, and pushing/fetching
> changes.
> 
> I'm wondering, should that start to occur as part of 1.5.0?
> Its one .sh script, like gitk.  :)
>

I have recently moved a project involving multiple companies developing on Windows and Linux from cvs(nt) over to git. The availability of git-gui at the time was an important point: many folks working this project simply will not work at the command line. We are still spinning up on git, but several of the developers are relying upon git-gui now and I expect that most will use it. So, I am definitely for moving git-gui into git. It definitely fits well with the 1.5 usability theme.

Side note: with my gitk fix for Cygwin now in master, git-gui should not be deleting ~/.gitk on Cygwin anymore.

Whatever the decision: Shawn - thank you for developing this.

Mark Levedahl