From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 18:25:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [wish] Revert changes in git gui
Message-ID: <CEA0701CFAE141D0BD40149A8D1BC1B4@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <548DD626.5060102@grueninger.de>

From: "Christoph Grüninger" <foss@grueninger.de>
> Hi Bert,
> yes and no. I couldn't find a message from you requesting a merge of
> this patch. Maybe it's me, I am not familiar with the way it works for
> Git.
>
> @Git developers: Do you consider merging Bert's patch? If not, what's
> the reason?
>
> Bye
> Christoph
>
>
> On 12.12.2014 at 10:28, Bert Wesarg wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Christoph Grüninger
>> <foss@grueninger.de> wrote:
>>> Hi Bert,
>>> your commit is more than half a year old. Do you intent to include
>>> that
>>> into Git master? If not, what's the reason?
>>
>> Thats a really odd question to a person who posted this patch to the
>> mailling list the fist place, isn't it? If anything you should have
>> asked the git gui developers and community, why they didn't show
>> interest to have this in master, right?
>>
Hi,
Git gui isn't maintained by Junio himself :
http://git-blame.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/note-from-maintainer.html
<quote>
Although the following are included in git.git repository, they have
their own authoritative repository and maintainers:

  a.. git-gui/ comes from git-gui project, maintained by Pat Thoyts:

git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git
</quote>

Perhaps copy the original patch to Pat, with the justifications, reviews 
and Acks, to see if it's acceptable.
--
Philip