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Re: [RFC] Common library for Git GUIs

From
MCMarco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 18, 2009, 08:04 UTC
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 20:28, Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> wrote:
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> Often I need to configure some options in ~/.gitconfig and .git/config, but
> the GUIs generally only allow to set very few basic ones. I had to resort to
> editing ~/.gitconfig to turn off the cursed core.autocrlf, because git gui
> does not have that setting. And there are many more settings like that that
> users may want to tweak and something to guide them would be highly
> appreciated especially by the command-line-fearing windooze users.
>
> So my idea is to provide some kind of "property sheet" -- a treeview with all
> the sections and options with editable values with proper constraints (so
> boolean and enum values could be entered with drop-down menus) and
> descriptions.

This is nice. Thanks for the idea, I will implement that in qgit when I find a bit of time :-)

Regarding your proposal I really wish you good luck and especially "have fun!!!"

For me it is like to trash out 95% of the stuff and start again from zero because of the last 5% is missing (but I can add it anyway with much smaller effort and time spent).

I understand the main reason, as per any GPL project, is having fun and good time coding and exchanging ideas with peers, but I really lack time and I am now moving to different interests. So, thank you very much, but I think I'll stick with qgit.

Best Marco

Previous: Jan HudecNext: David Aguilar
Message 14 of 15 in “[RFC] Common library for Git GUIs”
  1. Jan HudecFeb 16, 2009
  2. Guilhem BonnefilleFeb 17, 2009
  3. Jan HudecFeb 17, 2009
  4. Pieter de BieFeb 17, 2009
  5. Jan HudecFeb 17, 2009
  6. Johannes SchindelinFeb 17, 2009
  7. Jan HudecFeb 18, 2009
  8. Frank LiFeb 18, 2009
  9. Jan HudecFeb 18, 2009
  10. Abhijit BhopatkarFeb 18, 2009
  11. Abhijit BhopatkarFeb 18, 2009
  12. Fwd: [RFC] Common library for Git GUIsMarco Costalba, Feb 17, 2009
  13. Jan HudecFeb 17, 2009
  14. Marco CostalbaFeb 18, 2009
  15. David AguilarFeb 19, 2009

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