Re: Git Gui - Searching for in Google

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 17, 2021, 09:06 UTC
Message-ID: <YKIyD3QXQYHJVSS0@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20210516090133.xe2cooqzr2knyt46@yadavpratyush.com>

On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 02:31:33PM +0530, Pratyush Yadav wrote:

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> On 14/05/21 07:17PM, Allan Ford wrote:
> > Dear Git Community,
> > 
> > Just a thought and suggestion ..
> > 
> > Git Gui comes with Git download .. (remember this now ..)
> > 
> > https://git-scm.com/downloads states this in text.
> > https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis states this in text.
> > 
> > 
> > However .. If a person is using Google and searching for Git Gui
> > download am thinking a picture of what Git Gui interface looks like
> > would help flag to the searcher that they are in the right place ! ?
> > 
> > I.e. https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis has pictures of all the other
> > GUI Clients .. but not git gui !
> > 
> > Git Gui has the recognizable vertical Git in large Grey Red and Green letters ..
> > 
> > What do you think ?
> > Can we add a picture of Git Gui interface to either
> > https://git-scm.com/downloads or https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis ?
> 
> I think this would be a good idea. I have added Jeff in Cc who I think 
> maintains the git-scm.com website at [0]. Please create a Pull Request 
> there to add the screenshots.
> 
> [0] https://github.com/git/git-scm.com

The site is developed and maintained collaboratively, but yes, please point people to making PRs at the repository you linked. :)

(I don't have a real opinion either way on screenshots for git-gui; it is mentioned on the "GUIs" page, but it does not have its own entry in the list, so that's an obvious thing to change).

-Peff