From: Steffen Prohaska Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:04:20 GMT Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: Fourth incarnation of the msysGit herald Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20071020133359.GB19521@efreet.light.src> On Oct 20, 2007, at 3:33 PM, Jan Hudec wrote: > 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