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Re: [PATCH (GITK)] gitk: Add a menu option to start Git Gui.

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Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 18, 2008, 14:12 UTC
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
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> Alexander Gavrilov writes:
>> Git Gui already has menu commands to start gitk,
>> and this makes the relation symmetric. Since gitk and
>> git-gui complement each other, I think that it is
>> beneficial to integrate them where it makes sense.
>
> I think it makes more sense to have this as an item on the context
> menu for the fake commit(s) for local changes.

Git Gui is useful for a lot more things than just committing changes, e.g. you can interact with remote repositories, or do a merge, or amend the last commit message. Also, not everyone has local change display enabled in gitk.

Alexander
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  1. gitk: Add a menu option to start Git Gui.Alexander Gavrilov, Nov 13, 2008
  2. Paul MackerrasNov 18, 2008
  3. Alexander GavrilovNov 18, 2008

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