Re: [PATCH] Mod. gitk to support REBASE (with stash support).

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Aug 8, 2007, 20:08 UTC
Message-ID: <85lkclrdpr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708082141170.21916@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Alexandre Bourget wrote:
>
>> ---
>> Adds a context menu for commits, so that a 'rebase' can be done.
>> 
>> Optionally, it will ask if you want to 'stash' current work before doing so.
>> 
>
> You want something like this as a commit message, _not_ between "---" and 
> diffstat.
>
> General question: should this not be in git-gui rather than gitk?  Gitk as 
> of now is really more a viewing tool.

Well, yes. But git-gui only works on a single branch head at a time, and that is not enough for rebasing. It would be really nice if git-gui did not outsource its branch handling and viewing to gitk.

Could git-gui perhaps be merged with giggle at some point of time? Another option might be to let it talk with uDraw(Graph) over a socket: uDraw(Graph) keeps track of the graph layout and tells its client what has been dragged where.

Rebasing would also be a fine operation for drag and drop on a graphical revision history/branch system: pull one head onto another, or mark one segment and pull it onto another head. And use the reflog to recover from catastrophes...

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