Re: git-gui ignores core.hooksPath

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 10, 2018, 22:06 UTC
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1804110001350.56@ZVAVAG-6OXH6DA.rhebcr.pbec.zvpebfbsg.pbz>
In-Reply-To: <3a3eb88e-0d7b-e689-c4e4-207569ebd667@macq.eu>

Hi Chris,

On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, Chris Maes wrote:

> using git 2.16 the same problem is still present.

And probably 2.17, too.

> I see that the pull request https://github.com/patthoyts/git-gui/pull/12
> (along with 15 other pull requests) are lying around since about one
> year without any sign of life from patthoyts.

Yes, this is very sad. I hope he is alive and doing well.

As to Git GUI: if you know your way around Tcl/Tk reasonably well, how about stepping up and reviewing those PRs? Even if the PRs are not merged, a review would do those PRs pretty good and we could then take things from there.

> Is there any hope from here that anyone will pick up this / these
> changes?  Will anyone else be assigned the main responsible for this
> git-gui repository?

There is no "assigning" here, not really. What is missing is a volunteer who earned the trust of the Git developers. Reviewing those PRs would go a long way to earn that trust.

> Just hoping to revive the discussion here, since the
> https://github.com/patthoyts/git-gui/ repository seems quite dead.

Thank you for doing this.

I also hope that somebody with reasonable understanding of Tcl/Tk and a vested interest in Git GUI takes up the responsibility of maintaining it. Judging by the rate the PRs trickled into https://github.com/patthoyts/git-gui, I think it would be a minor time commitment.

Ciao, Johannes