From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jason Sewall" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ugit: a pyqt-based git gui // was: Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change? Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:02:44 -0500 Message-ID: <31e9dd080712120702k36a959cfh3e2a5c5fb076d922@mail.gmail.com> References: <402731c90712110548k67f28b64w5afa93ee908ce73b@mail.gmail.com> <31e9dd080712111114t2bbdba60m18b7d6210f3f9174@mail.gmail.com> <402731c90712111254q1cb99c6al47538971d93b4592@mail.gmail.com> <31e9dd080712111329j2c8b22ebs38ab727a5fbe85fb@mail.gmail.com> <20071212041002.GN14735@spearce.org> <31e9dd080712112113u44b30c62ja012951fba958c5d@mail.gmail.com> <20071212052329.GR14735@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David , "Marco Costalba" , "Andy Parkins" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 12 16:03:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J2T77-0006iX-Pl for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:03:10 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752052AbXLLPCq (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:02:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751965AbXLLPCq (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:02:46 -0500 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.178]:48715 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750772AbXLLPCp (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:02:45 -0500 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so443808wah.23 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:02:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=hDrBM2Yr3IUx/uDnk7nZeD1bj0/750IOY4aGqbYwJR4=; b=UGjS7KeShM6OBfJ2DvFyIm0mCozXYXTg8VxfHlhFuP10ZSDGQ69q3KvInB+ViYlLSKM+NRjIn9hQRkxfUNOcljfxXMemLKFTxZxLHMaMqmAqFcUhwqxgLawmBWCIqZwvBP7x/rfksXV/xp//b7NCX2DJ7EzQCwjgVkToEOOtDvA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GyA6AnhZ1TqGwEK3b1jjrTE4pYiDiGuVORm0WPoaPRUrp/+zMpZ+yGy7XdgwKoD+y/n9ARdi55rluCHq2npFXDKMB1CcQ2/sM+/fSiHHjA0WzXySVE4Twp3RGVjgGKLH0O6jaUzxrM0aFV7CLLlZ4MP8JtNGl9t6U3dJwQyNFzY= Received: by 10.114.92.2 with SMTP id p2mr866371wab.90.1197471764826; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:02:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.115.18.14 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:02:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20071212052329.GR14735@spearce.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Dec 12, 2007 12:23 AM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > I use git-gui and gitk for my git graphical needs because they rock > > and at the end of the day, the fonts and antialiasing aren't that big > > of a deal, especially since I'm usually doing quick scans and searches > > over the information those tools display, not reading novels in them. > > Good points. Features win over pretty most of the time. But at > some point pretty is important; especially to new user adoption. > Plus if you are looking at it all day long it shouldn't be jarring > to the eyes. But git-gui still isn't even where I want it ot > be feature-wise. E.g. I'd *love* to teach it inotify support, > so you don't even need to have that Rescan button. On that note, did you see what I wrote above, about having "split hunk" functionality? That would be killer. I know, I know, I should write a patch... well, I've got a paper deadline coming up, and the time it takes me to run git add -i over some clicks in git-gui plus the time to figure out how to add that feature doesn't balance... Jason