From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse van den Kieboom Subject: Re: git gtk+/GNOME gui application: gitg Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:50:28 +0100 Message-ID: <1233748228.7594.2.camel@wren> References: <1233432317.26364.5.camel@wren> <498877A7.3050308@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michael J Gruber , git@vger.kernel.org To: Stefan Karpinski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 04 12:52:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LUgIR-0001iG-4g for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:51:59 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751870AbZBDLud (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 06:50:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751468AbZBDLuc (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 06:50:32 -0500 Received: from novowork.com ([87.230.85.62]:43884 "EHLO novowork.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751253AbZBDLuc (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 06:50:32 -0500 Received: from [128.178.246.242] (ls-in-242.epfl.ch [128.178.246.242]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by novowork.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1F1AE36709FC; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:50:30 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Op dinsdag 03-02-2009 om 11:43 uur [tijdzone -0800], schreef Stefan Karpinski: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Michael J Gruber > wrote: > > > > Not yet another one, please! > > > > I'm sorry, but that was my first thought. I lost count of how many > > half-finished GUIs we have, using tcl/tk, gtk, qt, you-name-it-tk. I > > still don't see any which provide a consistent, "modern", stable GUI for > > viewing *and* committing, i.e. a replacement for gitk and git-gui. > > > > The latter two still seem to be the most feature rich choices, but they > > suffer somewhat from their implementation language. Just look at the git > > survey and you know why nobody wants to work on them. > > For what it's worth, GitX (OS X only) does both history viewing and > committing, and seems to be rapidly approaching the feature set of > gitk and git-gui combined. Unfortunately, I seem to inevitably hate > cross-platform GUI's---they never feel right or work slickly enough. > Sad, but true. This is the reason why I'm developing gitg as a separate application, and not as a different front end for GitX. > If GitX and this newer project could share a lot of code base, then > maybe their co-development would be accelerated and both would end up > being slick, native, full-fledged GUIs for git. I try to follow the implementation of GitX very closely since it's the basis of the development of gitg (it happens to be that I know the developer of GitX very well). -- Jesse van den Kieboom Personal: http://www.icecrew.nl Professional: http://www.novowork.com