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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: rfc - Changing the way gitk and git-gui are managed
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On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 02:16:45AM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:

> Only this: Junio said that there are no major downsides to this change
> - and given the slow pace of change in gitk/git-gui, this is probably
> true - but are there any *upsides*?  What problem does this solve?

One minor complaint with the current setup is that browsing the history
with path limiting is unintuitive. You can't do "gitk gitk" in the
gitk-git directory. You must instead do "cd .. && gitk -- gitk".

-Peff