Re: [PATCH v2] doc/gitk: update reference to the external project
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2025-08-20 15:34:28
Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:
Gitk is now maintained by Johannes Sixt and the repository can be cloned from a new URL. b59358100c20 (Update the official repo of gitk, 2024-12-24) could have updated this instance in the manual, too, but the opportunity was missed. Update it now. Do give credit to Paul Mackerras as the inventor of the program. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <redacted> ---
Thanks for the update. This is long overdue. I forgot that this manual page was carried in my tree.
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I just noticed that I would have removed the last user-visible mention of Paul. Don't do that. Documentation/gitk.adoc | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)diff --git a/Documentation/gitk.adoc b/Documentation/gitk.adoc index 58ce40ddb1..5b34dcd077 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitk.adoc +++ b/Documentation/gitk.adoc@@ -163,16 +163,16 @@ used by default. If '$XDG_CONFIG_HOME' is not set it defaults to History ------- -Gitk was the first graphical repository browser. It's written in -tcl/tk. +Gitk was the first graphical repository browser, written by +Paul Mackerras in Tcl/Tk. 'gitk' is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convenience of end users. -gitk-git/ comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project: +`gitk-git/` comes from Johannes Sixt's gitk project: - git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk + https://github.com/j6t/gitk SEE ALSO --------