Re: [msysGit] Re: Fourth incarnation of the msysGit herald

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Oct 20, 2007, 18:04 UTC
Message-ID: <A24982F6-40B2-4897-904E-99A135EC9D41@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <20071020133359.GB19521@efreet.light.src>

On Oct 20, 2007, at 3:33 PM, Jan Hudec wrote:

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> On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 00:25:49 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> git gui
>> =======
>>
>> git gui is a really nice program, and as I often said, I consider it
>> more porcelain than a gui, since it uses the git core directly,  
>> instead
>> of wrapping around porcelain commands.
>>
>> The user experience I had with git gui made me think that this should
>> be the primary interface Windows users should be confronted with, not
>> the command line.
>>
>> The major problem we had in msysGit is that git-gui was to be  
>> launched
>> from the Start Menu, or a QuickLaunch icon.  This is in contrast to
>> the shell, where you usually start git gui in a working directory.
>
> It would be nice to install an entry in the explorer menu to run  
> git-gui in
> a selected directory. It can be done by just writing something like  
> to the
> registry (completely untested -- I just looked it up on the internet):

What you propose is already there!

Did you try the most recent setup?

http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/Git-1.5.3-preview20071019.exe

	Steffen