# Re: [PATCH] Create /gitk as a symlink to gitk-git/gitk-wish. 2 messages from 2010-02-23 to 2010-02-23. Participants: Avery Pennarun, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/22770 ## Avery Pennarun, 2010-02-23 18:47 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Create /gitk as a symlink to gitk-git/gitk-wish. Message-ID: <32541b131002231047y4dc49f85s56ba91e6bc7bf16c@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/32541b131002231047y4dc49f85s56ba91e6bc7bf16c%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <1266536738-2933-1-git-send-email-apenwarr@gmail.com> ``` On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Avery Pennarun 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 Any comments on this one? Avery ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2010-02-23 21:56 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Create /gitk as a symlink to gitk-git/gitk-wish. Message-ID: <7vtyt7ehv0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vtyt7ehv0.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: <32541b131002231047y4dc49f85s56ba91e6bc7bf16c@mail.gmail.com> ``` Avery Pennarun writes: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Avery Pennarun 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 > > 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. ```