Re: [RFC] git-gui: A commit / fetch / push interface

Paul Mackerras [off-list ref] wrote:

One thing I have been meaning to do is to integrate gitool into gitk,
now that gitk can display a fake commit showing the local changes.  I
intend to add a menu item to gitk saying "Commit local changes" or
something, which would invoke gitool, or maybe now git-gui instead. :)
The nice thing is that then gitk could update the graph to show the
new commit once it was created.

Right.  :-)

I have absolutely no plans (or desire) to attempt to do graph
rendering in git-gui.  The most I may do for showing history in it
is perhaps a "git log --max-count=5 --pretty=oneline" type of display
so the user can see more than just an empty window after a commit.

IMHO gitk does a very nice job of rendering the graph on a wide
range of platforms (although it still has two annoying bugs: one
on Windows and one on Mac OS X that really make it hard to use).
git-gui is just an attempt to bring the other major features of Git
to that same set of platforms, with the same set of dependencies
(wish 8) and ease of use...

It would be nice if we can eventually connect gitk and git-gui so
they can coordinate as you are talking about above...

My current version of gitool also has menus that let you revert
modified files, and delete or ignore untracked files.  Have you
considered adding that to git-gui?

Yes, they are in my TODO list (or if missing from there are certainly
in my head as things to add).  I'd like to get git-gui finished this
week, which means getting those features in today or tomorrow.  :-)
I'll probably do branches first though.

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