From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:42:39 GMT
Subject: Re: rfc - Changing the way gitk and git-gui are managed
Message-ID: <AANLkTin+jUB85Zua7TP_dmdU9QSEiAuTDZhPQQ7hQTP-@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100727053040.GA6014@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 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