From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:16:45 GMT
Subject: Re: rfc - Changing the way gitk and git-gui are managed
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On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 21:39, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Somebody off-list suggested removing gitk and git-gui directories from my
>> repository and I've been playing with the idea and kind of like the end
>> result.
>
> The neighboring thread [0] about git subtree seems highly relevant to
> this decision. Avery, do you perhaps any additional insights wrt this
> particular use case?

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?

git-submodule and git-subtree solve different problems, so which one
is "better" depends on the problem to be solved.  As a
mostly-just-user of git, whatever is currently being done is super
convenient and easy for me and I wouldn't ask for any change at all.
Obviously it might be very different from Junio's point of view :)

Have fun,

Avery