1.6.0: where is git-gui?

1.6.0: where is git-gui?

[Oliver Kullmann]

Hi,

apparently git-gui is no longer installed
when installing git?
This seems to me a very strange decision.
But anyway, I would assume that somehow
one can still install it, though I can't
find anything in README, INSTALL or elsewhere??

Oliver

Re: 1.6.0: where is git-gui?

[Alex Riesen]

Oliver Kullmann, Wed, Aug 20, 2008 19:20:38 +0200:
> apparently git-gui is no longer installed
> when installing git?

It is "git gui" (no dash) now. It is in RelNotes, the very first
paragraph (Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt).

Re: 1.6.0: where is git-gui?

[Pieter de Bie]

On Aug 20, 2008, at 7:20 PM, Oliver Kullmann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> apparently git-gui is no longer installed
> when installing git?
> This seems to me a very strange decision.
> But anyway, I would assume that somehow
> one can still install it, though I can't
> find anything in README, INSTALL or elsewhere??

try 'git gui' without the dash

- Pieter

Re: 1.6.0: where is git-gui?

[Junio C Hamano]

Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann@swansea.ac.uk> writes:

> apparently git-gui is no longer installed
> when installing git?

Hint #0. Have you read release notes?
\f
Hint #1. "git-commit" is spelled "git commit" these days.  
\f
Hint #2. Shouldn't "git-gui" now be spelled "git gui"?
\f
Solution. "git gui"

;-)

Re: 1.6.0: where is git-gui?

[David Kastrup]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann@swansea.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> apparently git-gui is no longer installed
>> when installing git?
>
> Hint #0. Have you read release notes?

The point of using a GUI is to never have to deal with command lines or
other plaintext geek jargon making your eyes glaze over.

SCNR

-- 
David Kastrup

Re: 1.6.0: where is git-gui?

[Oliver Kullmann]

Thanks for the "git gui" info!

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.).

Thanks

Oliver


On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:03:17PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann@swansea.ac.uk> writes:
> >
> >> apparently git-gui is no longer installed
> >> when installing git?
> >
> > Hint #0. Have you read release notes?
> 
> The point of using a GUI is to never have to deal with command lines or
> other plaintext geek jargon making your eyes glaze over.
> 
> SCNR
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup
> 
> --

Re: 1.6.0: where is git-gui?

[Shawn O. Pearce]

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.