Re: Many gits are offline this week

From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Oct 7, 2007, 19:37 UTC
Message-ID: <86ve9i1ztl.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071007170153.GX2137@spearce.org>

>>>>> "Shawn" == Shawn O Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

Shawn> What, no mention of git-gui as a porcelain? It has more users Shawn> than qgit according to the survey. Maybe rephrase the porcelains Shawn> on slide 15 as:

Shawn> Other porcelain exists: Shawn> - StGit ("stacked git"), guilt Shawn> - tig (curses-based viewer) Shawn> - qgit, git-gui

git-gui should have been mentioned with "the git distro".  Fixed.

Shawn> On slide 26 you say "gitk mytopic origin" shows the changes back to Shawn> the common ancestor. That's what "gitk mytopic...origin" would do. Shawn> Note the three dots instead of the space. The space will cause Shawn> gitk to show all history back to the beginning of time.

Darned inconsistency! Sometimes, it's a space. Sometimes it's two dots. Sometimes, it's three dots. I know, there's reasons for that, but it's still hard for the newbie.

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