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Re: rfc - Changing the way gitk and git-gui are managed

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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 27, 2010, 05:42 UTC
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 02:16:45AM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:
>> Only this: Junio said that there are no major downsides to this change
>> - and given the slow pace of change in gitk/git-gui, this is probably
>> true - but are there any *upsides*?  What problem does this solve?
>
> One minor complaint with the current setup is that browsing the history
> with path limiting is unintuitive. You can't do "gitk gitk" in the
> gitk-git directory. You must instead do "cd .. && gitk -- gitk".

Arguably this would be an encouragement to fix the path limiting code, in a similar way that people expect switching to a submodule setup to encourage people to fix submodules :)

Have fun,
Avery
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Message 5 of 18 in “rfc - Changing the way gitk and git-gui are managed”
  1. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2010
  2. Sverre RabbelierJul 23, 2010
  3. Avery PennarunJul 23, 2010
  4. Jeff KingJul 27, 2010
  5. Avery PennarunJul 27, 2010
  6. Jeff KingJul 27, 2010
  7. Jakub NarebskiJul 27, 2010
  8. Will PalmerJul 23, 2010
  9. Sam VilainJul 25, 2010
  10. Greg TroxelJul 23, 2010
  11. Nicolas SebrechtJul 24, 2010
  12. Jonathan NiederJul 24, 2010
  13. Jonathan NiederJul 24, 2010
  14. Nicolas SebrechtJul 24, 2010
  15. Jonathan NiederJul 24, 2010
  16. Avery PennarunJul 24, 2010
  17. Jonathan NiederJul 24, 2010
  18. Avery PennarunJul 25, 2010

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