Re: Many gits are offline this week

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

Shawn> What, no mention of git-gui as a porcelain?  It has more users
Shawn> than qgit according to the survey.  Maybe rephrase the porcelains
Shawn> on slide 15 as:

Shawn>   Other porcelain exists:
Shawn>     - StGit ("stacked git"), guilt
Shawn>     - tig (curses-based viewer)
Shawn>     - qgit, git-gui

git-gui should have been mentioned with "the git distro".  Fixed.

Shawn> On slide 26 you say "gitk mytopic origin" shows the changes back to
Shawn> the common ancestor.  That's what "gitk mytopic...origin" would do.
Shawn> Note the three dots instead of the space.  The space will cause
Shawn> gitk to show all history back to the beginning of time.

Darned inconsistency!  Sometimes, it's a space.  Sometimes it's two dots.
Sometimes, it's three dots.  I know, there's reasons for that, but it's still
hard for the newbie.

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