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Where do I send patches for git-gui?

Subject: Where do I send patches for git-gui?

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Pratyush Yadav· Jul 24, 2019, 18:07 UTC · lore
Hi,

I have a quick little feature to add to git-gui, and I'm wondering where should I discuss it and send patches. The git-gui repo [0] has no readme I can see that would point me in the right direction. Googling around didn't get me anything either.

Should I send it here on this list or is it somewhere else?

Also, is the project even actively maintained any more? The last commit was in 2017.

[0] http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git/
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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav
Christian Couder· Jul 25, 2019, 11:34 UTC · re: Pratyush Yadav · lore

Re: Where do I send patches for git-gui?

Hi Pratyush,
On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 11:43 PM Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com> wrote:
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> I have a quick little feature to add to git-gui, and I'm wondering where
> should I discuss it and send patches. The git-gui repo [0] has no readme
> I can see that would point me in the right direction. Googling around
> didn't get me anything either.
>
> Should I send it here on this list or is it somewhere else?

It seems to me that people have been sending patches to git-gui to this mailing list indeed.

According to the following discussions:
  - https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqbm36w7hl.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/
  - https://public-inbox.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1905272135280.28524@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet/

Pat Thoyts (in CC) used to be the git-gui maintainer but we haven't been hearing from him for a long time, so we are looking for a new maintainer.

> Also, is the project even actively maintained any more? The last commit
> was in 2017.
Pratyush Yadav· Jul 25, 2019, 15:16 UTC · re: Christian Couder · lore

Re: Where do I send patches for git-gui?

On 25/07/19 5:04 PM, Christian Couder wrote:
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> Hi Pratyush,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 11:43 PM Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a quick little feature to add to git-gui, and I'm wondering where
>> should I discuss it and send patches. The git-gui repo [0] has no readme
>> I can see that would point me in the right direction. Googling around
>> didn't get me anything either.
>>
>> Should I send it here on this list or is it somewhere else?
> 
> It seems to me that people have been sending patches to git-gui to
> this mailing list indeed.
All right, I'll send it here.
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> According to the following discussions:
> 
>    - https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqbm36w7hl.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/
>    - https://public-inbox.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1905272135280.28524@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet/
> 
> Pat Thoyts (in CC) used to be the git-gui maintainer but we haven't
> been hearing from him for a long time, so we are looking for a new
> maintainer.

Ah, that's too bad that there is no active maintainer. I recently switched my text editor from Atom to Vim, and the only thing I am missing is Atom's gui for looking at diffs and resolving merge conflicts. I've only used git-gui for a couple days, but it looks like just the tool I need.

I can maintain it (as long as I'm using the tool at least). I'm not particularly fluent with Tcl or Tk, but I'm learning them as I implement the features I need.

Will I get commit access to the main git repo, or should I use a fork and send the changes over here, and one of you folks will merge them?

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> 
>> Also, is the project even actively maintained any more? The last commit
>> was in 2017.
-- 
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav
Johannes Schindelin· Jul 25, 2019, 12:00 UTC · re: Pratyush Yadav · lore

Re: Where do I send patches for git-gui?

Hi,
On Wed, 24 Jul 2019, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
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> I have a quick little feature to add to git-gui, and I'm wondering
> where should I discuss it and send patches. The git-gui repo [0] has
> no readme I can see that would point me in the right direction.
> Googling around didn't get me anything either.
>
> Should I send it here on this list or is it somewhere else?
>
> Also, is the project even actively maintained any more? The last commit was in
> 2017.
>
> [0] http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git/

Sadly, it seems that we do not have any active Git GUI maintainer, indeed.

The latest repository for Git GUI seems to have been https://github.com/patthoyts/git-gui, but even that has fallen dormant.

Your best bet is to send the patch to this list, and we'll just have to try to work together to our best abilities to review and improve and integrate it.

Ciao, Johannes

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