From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:15:30 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ugit: a pyqt-based git gui // was: Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <31e9dd080712120702k36a959cfh3e2a5c5fb076d922@mail.gmail.com> Hi, On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Jason Sewall wrote: > On Dec 12, 2007 12:23 AM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > > I use git-gui and gitk for my git graphical needs because they rock > > > and at the end of the day, the fonts and antialiasing aren't that > > > big of a deal, especially since I'm usually doing quick scans and > > > searches over the information those tools display, not reading > > > novels in them. > > > > Good points. Features win over pretty most of the time. But at some > > point pretty is important; especially to new user adoption. Plus if > > you are looking at it all day long it shouldn't be jarring to the > > eyes. But git-gui still isn't even where I want it ot be > > feature-wise. E.g. I'd *love* to teach it inotify support, so you > > don't even need to have that Rescan button. > > On that note, did you see what I wrote above, about having "split hunk" > functionality? I had a patch for splitting hunks in git-gui in August, but there were some issues that I did not yet resolve. If you want to work on it, I'll gladly share that patch with you. Ciao, Dscho