On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 05:00:11AM -0500, Karthik Nayak wrote:

Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] writes:

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Wire up both gitk and git-gui in Meson as subprojects. These two
programs should be the last missing pieces for feature compatibility
with our Makefile for distributors.

Note that Meson expects subprojects to live in the "subprojects/"
directory. Create symlinks to fulfill this requirement.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <redacted>
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Hi,

I have upstreamed support for Meson into both gitk [1] and git-gui [2].
This small patch series wires up support in Git.

Changes in v2:
  - Use symlinks instead of moving both gitk and git-gui into the
    "subprojects/" directory.
  - Rebased on v2.53.0, as it's been a while since v1 :)
  - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250819-b4-pks-meson-tcl-tk-v1-0-6bcaff0bc0a0@pks.im (local)

Thanks!

Patrick

So in the previous version, we moved these projects into 'subprojects/',
but we now use symlinks instead. Do you know if there is perhaps an
issue in Meson to support configurable subproject paths? If so, we could
eventually drop the symlink.

There already is such support: you can configure subprojects to live in
an arbitrary location by setting the `subproject_dir` parameter in the
`project()` call. But there are some restrictions in place here:

  - It cannot be an absolute path.

  - It must not start with a dot.

  - It must not contain "../".

So that means it's not possible to specify the top-level directory, and
that seems to be a concious decision.

Patrick