Re: [PATCH v2 resend] gitk: Use an external icon file on Windows

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Forwarding a misdirected patch to the maintainer who is free to pick
or ignore.

How am I supposed to know if a patch has been ignored as an oversight
(in which case I would resend), or because the maintainer decided not
to include it (in which case I would not resend in order to not annoy
the maintainer)?

Personally I am negative on it (nobody on the list asked for the
"new" Git icon as far as I recall), but my voice on this counts just
as little as others.

I guess most patches on the list come in unasked, so I cannot follow
your negative attitude because of this. Also, the patch does not
enforce the new icon on any platform. From a user's perspective, [1]
as mentioned on [2] is the official Git homepage, thus the icon used
on the homepage can be regarded as the official Git icon. In Git for
Windows, we try to have a consistent user experience, and we had a
report about gitk still using the "old" icon [3]. This patch fixes
that, and I'm sending it upstream in an effort to not let msysgit's
fork of git diverge too much from upstream.

[1] http://git-scm.com/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29#External_links
[3] https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/issues/44

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Sebastian Schuberth