Re: [RFC] Questions for "Git User's Survey 2011"

[David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>]

On Sep 3, 2011, at 2:00 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Sep 2011, David Aguilar wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 05:58:32PM -0400, Phil Hord wrote:
>>> On 07/25/2011 04:33 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>>> === 11. What Git interfaces, implementations and frontends do you use? ===
>>>> (multiple choice, with other)
> [...]
> 
>>> Looking at the 2010 results, I would add these GUIs to the main list:
>>> git-gui (core)
>>> gitk (core)
>>> gitX
>>> gitg
>>> git-cola
>>> TortoiseGit
>>> SmartGit
>>> Git Extensions
>>> Giggle
>> 
>> This is a better list ;-)
> 
> Because of huge number of Git GUIs and tools instead of providing a long
> list of tools to choose from, I went for free-form question:

okay, that makes sense.

nevertheless, we are advertising cogito (deprecated) and pyrite (never made it past pre-alpha in 2008).  why? these should be removed. if you need a replacement, might I suggest git-cola? ;-)I think removing (and thus not advertising) dead tools is more important than coming up with replacements. this is on page 4/10 on the survs.com link you sent elsewhere in this thread.


>  === 13. List git tools that you use (optional) ===
>  (free form, essay)
> 
>  Description:
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  Please include only frontends, interfaces and tools that have support
>  for Git (so e.g. EGit applies, but Eclipse doesn't).
> 
>  Please either use comma separated list of tools, or put each tool in a
>  separate line.  That would make analysis of answers simpler.  Thanks
>  in advance.
> 
> Even though it is free-form question, it shouldn't be hard to analyse,
> though it wouldn't be completely automatical.
> -- 
> Jakub Narebski
> Poland