Re: [PATCH] git-gui: document the gui.maxfilesdisplayed variable

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 14, 2011, 07:51 UTC
Message-ID: <7v39nruk9j.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110213125324.GA31986@book.hvoigt.net>

Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> writes:

> I am not sure how we should go about this patch. Should I split it in
> two since it removes the TODO line in git-gui and adds the
> documentation in git?

Two opposing thoughts.

 1. We can keep git-gui and git proper separate projects, move git-gui
    documentation out of git to git-gui, and with clever Makefile trick
    include and build git-gui related documentation conditionally only
    when git-gui appears part of the git project tree (this anticipates a
    future where git-gui is bound to git not with the subtree merge
    strategy as we currently do, but as a submodule).

 2. Just like the Linux kernel project, we can make each subsystem with
    separate maintainers just different repositories of the same git
    project with their own focus.  We already do this for git-svn (which I
    delegate to Eric Wong by pulling from him) and some parts of contrib/
    tree; we have already been halfway there for gitweb/ (which I don't
    regularly "pull from", but I mainly act as a patch monkey without
    actively managing that part myself).  I don't see why we cannot extend
    that model to git-gui and gitk.