Re: [ANNOUNCE] ugit: a pyqt-based git gui // was: Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?

["Jason Sewall" <jasonsewall@gmail.com>]

On Dec 11, 2007 3:54 PM, David <davvid@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 11, 2007 8:14 PM, Jason Sewall <jasonsewall@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I re-installed without the prefix and that error disappeared, but now I get
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/local/bin/ugit", line 12, in <module>
> >     view = GitView (app.activeWindow())
> >   File "../py/views.py", line 15, in __init__
> >   File "default/ui/Window.py", line 43, in setupUi
> > AttributeError: setLeftMargin
>
> As for the setLeftMarginError -- That could be because you have py/qt
> 4.2.  The ui files were generated with designer-qt4 (4.3.x) so you
> might need a more recent pyqt4.  I'll see if I can grab an older
> version of pyqt and use it for all of the ui designs  (.ui files are
> probably forward but not backwards compatible).

That was it - as a matter of fact, the package updater for my distro
was asking me to upgrade.

Well done, though I don't think I'm going to abandon git-gui quite yet.

The most valuable thing git-gui does, IMHO, is give you fine control
over what you stage in a commit. The two-paned view of staged and
unstaged changes with the view of the actual changes makes it really
easy to see exactly what you are committing. And the graphical
"{Un}stage hunk for commit" business, which ugit seems to lack so far,
is really excellent - it's much easier to use than git add -i for
partial adds.

I would like to see git add -i's hunk-splitting functionality in a
graphical tool for that matter.

Anyway, ugit is very good for a first draft; its text display beats
whats in git-gui in a big way (and I would *hope* qt4 would beat
Tcl/Tk at that at least).

One suggestion:
For Westerners like me, having "staged" on the left and "unstaged" on
the right seems a little unnatural; I'd be curious to hear others'
opinions on that.

Jason