From: Sverre Rabbelier Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 20:46:01 GMT Subject: Re: git gui: Possible to see which commands are executed? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080520203153.GH29038@spearce.org> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > 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). -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier