1.6.0: where is git-gui?

Hi,

apparently git-gui is no longer installed when installing git? This seems to me a very strange decision. But anyway, I would assume that somehow one can still install it, though I can't find anything in README, INSTALL or elsewhere??

Oliver

Oliver Kullmann, Wed, Aug 20, 2008 19:20:38 +0200:

It is "git gui" (no dash) now. It is in RelNotes, the very first paragraph (Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt).

On Aug 20, 2008, at 7:20 PM, Oliver Kullmann wrote:

try 'git gui' without the dash

- Pieter

Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann@swansea.ac.uk> writes:

Hint #0. Have you read release notes?

Hint #1. "git-commit" is spelled "git commit" these days.  

Hint #2. Shouldn't "git-gui" now be spelled "git gui"?

Solution. "git gui"

;-)

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

The point of using a GUI is to never have to deal with command lines or other plaintext geek jargon making your eyes glaze over.

SCNR

Thanks for the "git gui" info!

I've read the release notes, but it didn't occur to me that "git-gui" is part of "git" --- I assumed it would be, like "gitk", a different program (which just be chance is using the same naming convention like "git-clone" etc.).

Thanks

Oliver

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:03:17PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:

Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann@swansea.ac.uk> wrote:

Well, it really is a separate program, just like gitk is.

But its name being "git-gui" and not "gitgui" is not by accident. I chose it to fit into the "git foo" naming scheme used by the core tools, so it fit better into the overall user experience. Ditto with "git citool".