From: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:12:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH (GITK)] gitk: Add a menu option to start Git Gui.
Message-ID: <bb6f213e0811180612k2183afcas2ba1dc379bfbb03b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <18722.35810.362792.501694@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
> 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