From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:53:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Merge git-gui into 1.5.0 ?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702112351270.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070211224158.GA31488@spearce.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Unlike Kay, I'm not looking to merge git-gui into git.git to abandon it.

That's great!

> It may be saner for all involved if that development happens in the 
> git-gui.git repository, with drops made to git.git by way of merging the 
> "subproject" every so often.

Fully agree.

> It may make patching slightly more interesting though, as some
> users new to git-gui development may generate a patch in git.git
> (using a/git-gui/git-gui.sh as the path) which then would not apply
> as-is to the master git-gui development tree.

In this case, a "-p <n>" option to git-am would make sense, no?

Ciao,
Dscho