From: david@lang.hm Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:24:31 GMT Subject: Re: web-based client for Git, was Re: GSoC 2010 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100212125146.GW4159@machine.or.cz> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Petr Baudis wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 01:44:36PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 01:18:44PM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:25:02PM +0530, Pavan Kumar Sunkara wrote: >>>> sorry but my mails aren't reaching the mailing list. So it would be >>>> helpful if you forward this mail to the mailing list >>> >>> I'm quoting it in full here. :-) >>> >>>> I would be happy to elaborate this. >>> >>> Thanks a lot! >>> >>>> First of all, this is not another gitweb or gitorious. >>>> This is a client to use git. I mean, you could use this to work on git >>>> repositories. (even editing files) >>> >>> Aha, I see. Are you aware of "gist" [http://gist.github.com/]? It is >>> in a sense the first attempt to do this, albeit quite rudimentary in >>> some ways. And it's also closed-source, I'm not personally aware of an >>> open-source alternative, so this would certainly be useful! Actually, >>> I can say I would certainly like to add this functionality to repo.or.cz >>> for creating commits on the mob branches over the web directly. >> >> Surely, something could be plugged into https://bespin.mozilla.com/, >> which already does a great job at editing. > > That sounds like a nice replacement for the textarea, thanks for the > tip! On the other hand, I think this is currently the least important > part of the project and for the basic implementation, even a simple > textarea should suffice, any prettier editor hopefully could be slammed > in anytime trivially. you may want to look at this firefox add-on, it lets you select any editor to edit textareas https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 David Lang