Re: [PATCH] checkout: allow full refnames for local branches

On 5/9/07, Shawn O. Pearce [off-list ref] wrote:

Lars Hjemli [off-list ref] wrote:

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On 5/9/07, Shawn O. Pearce [off-list ref] wrote:

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If you are building "porcelain" to sit over Git and offer up a pretty
view of things, I would encourage you to avoid the stock porcelain.
Don't use git-checkout, its stock porcelain.  Instead go right to
the plumbing.  The plumbing doesn't really change behavior as often
(if ever).

Thanks, I probably will (also to avoid the shell scripts, since my
porcelain is aimed at my co-workers who are stuck on windows)

Are you building a strictly Win32 native GUI?  Or something else?

It's mono/.net, so I can test it on my linux box and push the binary
directly to the poor souls on windows :)

Can I ask what sort of features you are going after?  (And if
there's a git repository available, feel free to just point me at
it and ignore my questions.)

The features I'm focusing on are mostly trivial day-to-day operations
of your average coder: status, diff, commit, push, fetch, merge,
checkout, log. This should be enough to support our (planned) workflow
of one public repo per developer + a shared integration repo with
restricted push access + active use of topic-branches.

We currently use subversion, so real branches + real merges are killer
arguments for a switch to git. But we also use tortoisesvn, and the
"simplicity" of the gui must be met by some tool. Hence me playing
around....

If/when it becomes useful, I'll put it up on http://hjemli.net/git/

I'm just curious.  We seem to have a lot of user interface projects
going on at once right now (Eclipse plugin, git-gui, gitk, qgit, tig,
gitweb, blameview) and everyone's been learning from each other.

Heh, I actually considered calling it yagg (but it doesn't deserve a name yet)

I think the competition is good, there's no clear right way to do
things here.  As the primary author of git-gui, I do want to try
and keep current with what the others are up to.  ;-)

Absolutely, nice work btw.


-- 
larsh