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patchRe: [PATCH] Create /gitk as a symlink to gitk-git/gitk-wish.

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Create /gitk as a symlink to gitk-git/gitk-wish.

## tl;dr

2 messages between Feb 23, 2010 and Feb 23, 2010. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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Avery Pennarun· Feb 23, 2010, 18:47 UTC · lore
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
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> In earlier versions of git, you could add the git source dir to your PATH
> and the 'gitk' command would work.  At some point, this stopped working
> because the file formerly known as gitk is now gitk-git/gitk-wish.
>
> Have the Makefile automatically generate a symlink to it when building, to
> restore the earlier functionality.
>
> Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Any comments on this one?
Avery
Junio C Hamano· Feb 23, 2010, 21:56 UTC · re: Avery Pennarun · lore
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In earlier versions of git, you could add the git source dir to your PATH
>> and the 'gitk' command would work.  At some point, this stopped working
>> because the file formerly known as gitk is now gitk-git/gitk-wish.
>>
>> Have the Makefile automatically generate a symlink to it when building, to
>> restore the earlier functionality.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
>
> Any comments on this one?

To be honest, I am not terribly interested, as it seems to affect only people who build from source. They know what they are doing and are assumed to be capable of adjusting the environments for testing and developing git.

Having said that, adding anything missing to bin-wrappers/ would make more sense these days, I think.

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