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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [RFH] What do you think about adding graphical merge to git-gui?
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 14:46:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803071446.39468.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803071254310.19395@racer.site>

Hello!

Dnia piątek 7. marca 2008 12:54, Johannes Schindelin napisał:
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
>> What do you think about adding "merge" subcommand to git-gui,
>> or to be more exact adding tree-level merge and/or file-level
>> merge tool to git-gui? I think we could "borrow" some code from
>> TkDiff: http://tkdiff.sourceforge.net/ (which is also GPL)
> 
> Is there any reason not to use mergetool?

To quote original email:

>> Inspired by one of complaints in http://openradix.org/archives/349
>>
>> (Merging tools and file servers on Windows are lacking. Windows
>>  users expect the revision control to supply these tools.)

Besides "git gui merge" can be more Git-aware than for example TkDiff
invoked from git-mergetool. It can offer also resolution also to tree
level conflicts, such as rename/rename, rename/delete and rename/add,
delete/modify or for example the case when one side has file in 
subdirectory, and other has file in submodule.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-07 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200803071240.09999.jnareb@gmail.com>
2008-03-07 11:54 ` [RFH] What do you think about adding graphical merge to git-gui? Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-07 13:46   ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-03-07 13:53     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-07 15:21       ` Jakub Narebski
2008-03-07 15:27         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-08  1:19         ` Paul Mackerras

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