Re: Merge git-gui into 1.5.0 ?

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net> wrote:
> I have recently moved a project involving multiple companies developing 
> on Windows and Linux from cvs(nt) over to git. The availability of 
> git-gui at the time was an important point: many folks working this 
> project simply will not work at the command line. We are still spinning 
> up on git, but several of the developers are relying upon git-gui now 
> and I expect that most will use it. So, I am definitely for moving 
> git-gui into git. It definitely fits well with the 1.5 usability theme.

I'm glad git-gui has helped you migrate a team away from CVS.
The case you are describing is definately one of the reasons for
creating git-gui.

> Side note: with my gitk fix for Cygwin now in master, git-gui should not 
> be deleting ~/.gitk on Cygwin anymore.

Gah. I forgot about that feature of git-gui.  It is now removed,
and a new version has been pushed out.  Thank you for the reminder!
 
> Whatever the decision: Shawn - thank you for developing this.

You are most welecome.  :)

Paul Mackerras deserves some credit too, as his prototype gitool
was the original insipiration behind git-gui.  And his icons are
still in use within git-gui.

-- 
Shawn.