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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: 1.6.0: where is git-gui?
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:41:23 -0700
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Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann@swansea.ac.uk> wrote:
> I've read the release notes, but it didn't occur
> to me that "git-gui" is part of "git" --- I assumed
> it would be, like "gitk", a different program (which
> just be chance is using the same naming convention
> like "git-clone" etc.).

Well, it really is a separate program, just like gitk is.

But its name being "git-gui" and not "gitgui" is not by
accident.  I chose it to fit into the "git foo" naming
scheme used by the core tools, so it fit better into the
overall user experience.  Ditto with "git citool".

-- 
Shawn.