Re: git gui: Possible to see which commands are executed?

From: Sverre Rabbelier <alturin@gmail.com>
Date: May 20, 2008, 20:46 UTC
Message-ID: <bd6139dc0805201346g411c7d64i16d206953e595b38@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080520203153.GH29038@spearce.org>

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

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> Far from it.  Some users like git-gui for its ability to show
> the modified files, and let you stage/unstage individual hunks.
> Others like its ability to perform checkout+pull in one mouse
> click.  Many like to point at things with a rodent than to use
> the keyboard and enter (to them) isoteric commands.

Heh, I've never understood that, but I have a classmate that won't touch anything that doesn't have a "shiney" GUI that he likes (that is, he'll prefer the program with a "shiney" GUI even if there is one without that has better features).

> Right now there are really only two git GUIs; git-gui and QGit.
> Each has its strengths.  Maybe this time next year we will have
> a 3rd; name yet to be determined but it would come out of the
> egit/jgit project as a stand-alone SWT/Java based Git UI.

Is it "shiney"? If you haven't already, look into applying a theme to the app, the Substance LAF definitely looks "shiney"!

> Yes.  I'll send Junio a patch for Documentation/git-gui.txt and
> describe it as a debugging option, and also mention that the commands
> it displays aren't all meant to be invoked by mortals.

Sounds like a plan (maybe use "mere mortals" instead ;), it's more cool).

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier