Re: [PATCH] Mod. gitk to support REBASE (with stash support).

"Shawn O. Pearce" [off-list ref] writes:

David Kastrup [off-list ref] wrote:

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Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

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General question: should this not be in git-gui rather than gitk?  Gitk as 
of now is really more a viewing tool.

Well, yes.  But git-gui only works on a single branch head at a time,
and that is not enough for rebasing.

Sure.  But so does git's command line tools.  They tend to only
work on a single branch at time, the one called `HEAD`.

"tend", and many accept an explicit override: rebase accepts three
commit names, for example.  Those that _write_ into the repository
usually _end_ up at HEAD, but most need not start there.

And git-gui does not have any operation either looking at or working
other than on the current HEAD.  No diff, no file view, no rebase,
nothing.

So "single branch head at a time" is *not* why git-gui doesn't
support rebase.  Its because nobody has gotten around to writing it.

I never claimed that it is not possible to put a rebase in there (the
patch does this, after all).  I just said that it does not _fit_ in
there since you can't actually look at what you are rebasing on.

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Could git-gui perhaps be merged with giggle at some point of time?

Unlikely.  A while ago I considered "Stay in Tcl/Tk or move to
something more 'powerful/better/faster/Linus friendly'" and stayed
in Tcl/Tk.  I doubt git-gui will leave Tcl/Tk.  giggle is Gtk based.

My bad: git-gui has a nice polished look on my systems (Ubuntu Feisty)
while gitk has an ugly retro-blockish old-font Tk look; so not looking
at the innards, I had assumed they were implemented using different
systems.

I decided that any sort of rebase operation in git-gui must be *at
least* as easy to use/user friendly as `rebase -i` is.  Anything
less is just mocking the end-user.  Or something like that.  Anyway,
since git-gui is restricted to a graphical interface and most such
interfaces have these pointy rodents available we can do fancy
things like dragging to express what we want to have happen, instead
of moving lines of text around.

Want to write a patch (or series of patches) for git-gui?

User interfaces are really not what I am good at, and I don't even
have enough time to deal with the things I am good at.

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