From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Pierre Dumuid Subject: Re: gitk feature request.. Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:36:36 +1030 Message-ID: <45511F8C.1060705@adelaide.edu.au> References: <452A37FB.60507@adelaide.edu.au> <17745.1213.22769.420355@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <7vslgu28do.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------050901010202080604060600" NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 00:07:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Mackerras , git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) In-Reply-To: <7vslgu28do.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GhayS-0005Lk-Lr for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:07:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753771AbWKHAHV (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 19:07:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753773AbWKHAHV (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 19:07:21 -0500 Received: from dogmatix.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au ([129.127.14.1]:31588 "EHLO dogmatix.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753745AbWKHAHU (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 19:07:20 -0500 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by dogmatix.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA02086; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 10:34:21 +1030 Received: from UNKNOWN(129.127.14.10), claiming to be "watt.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au" via SMTP by dogmatix.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au, id smtpdc02077; Wed Nov 8 10:34:12 2006 Received: from WATT/SpoolDir by watt.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au (Mercury 1.44); 8 Nov 06 10:36:47 -9:30 Received: from SpoolDir by WATT (Mercury 1.44); 8 Nov 06 10:36:36 -9:30 Received: from [129.127.14.23] (129.127.14.23) by watt.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au (Mercury 1.44) with ESMTP; 8 Nov 06 10:36:30 -9:30 To: Junio C Hamano Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050901010202080604060600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Having said that, is the gitk view supposed to be shared across > users of a single repository? > > If you imagine yourself logging into kernel.org (perhaps X > forwarded over ssh to your local machine) and browsing > /pub/scm/git/git.git/, the repository itself would not be > writable by you. Even if it were, I do not think you would want > me to reuse the view you used from there next time I did the > same on the same repository. > I've mainly been thinking about users at a home who clone / update a remote repository and work in that repository for themselves. The idea of sshing into another machine seems to me not how git is designed to be used.. Also when one clones, I thought it cloned only the git repository, and not the files for the porcelaines. (an example being the branches directory) > It might make sense to give --state=dir/ parameter to gitk and > tell it to use that directory to keep persistent data. Also I > seem to recall you already have one file under $HOME/ to make > window geometry or something persistent. > I use gitk a lot, and I'd rather not have to specify a command line option all the time, but an override from using the settings in the another directory would be fine.. --------------050901010202080604060600 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="pierre.dumuid.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="pierre.dumuid.vcf" begin:vcard fn:Pierre Dumuid n:Dumuid;Pierre org:The University of Adelaide;Mechanical Engineering adr:;;;Adelaide;South Australia;5005;Australia email;internet:pierre.dumuid@adelaide.edu.au title:Postgraduate Student tel;work:8303 3847 tel;home:8388 5727 tel;cell:0407570263 note:CRICOS Provider Number 00123M x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.adelaide.edu.au version:2.1 end:vcard