Re: [Advance Warning PATCH] Move gitk to its own subdirectory

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

Junio C Hamano, Sat, Nov 17, 2007 20:15:20 +0100:
> The plan is to stop merging gitk.git as a single file project
> into git.git but instead use the subtree merge strategy into its
> own subdirectory of git.git.  We can use subproject support in
> the future, but once _a_ subproject is used that means the
> project's history is not pullable with subproject unaware
> versions of git anymore, so I'd avoid it for now.

You made it part of "all" target, which we will have to change if gitk
is to become a subproject: Makefile better handle absence of the
Makefile under gitk-git, and continue build.

> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> ---
>  Makefile              |   14 +++-----------
>  gitk-git/Makefile     |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  gitk => gitk-git/gitk |    0 
>  3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 gitk-git/Makefile
>  rename gitk => gitk-git/gitk (100%)
>  mode change 100755 => 100644
...
>  all::
>  ifndef NO_TCLTK
>  	$(QUIET_SUBDIR0)git-gui $(QUIET_SUBDIR1) all
> +	$(QUIET_SUBDIR0)gitk-git $(QUIET_SUBDIR1) all

maybe "git-gitk" instead of "gitk-git"? As "git-gui" and "gitweb"...
Maybe even shorter: "gui", "web" and "k" :)