From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: Modern Git GUI Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:35:57 +0100 Message-ID: <4B5ED39D.1020804@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <43d8ce651001250630p51761f6eyce8b89da6ffcd7b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin , andre.harms@kuhlsolutions.de, Matthieu Moy To: John Tapsell X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 26 12:38:13 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NZjkK-0007M7-Oq for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:38:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751370Ab0AZLiA (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:38:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751272Ab0AZLiA (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:38:00 -0500 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:57757 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750754Ab0AZLh7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:37:59 -0500 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB75FCD70F; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:37:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:37:58 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=+TiyGvMVyWnz13e36LEH6vc1EWI=; b=RCNUPnl+2I9T1IXYeWwaK+ojuw1ZkQZo2TkdpVGzv0KywApQqE9XrKNS1NAgOhl200uttcBmF9NYLKzTxNghZUWgvEYsLIWhUYTO61Cd4reaVqqBwcBcLBamkFjKihVYW8hZvBOiFe4zviHI4/pLTwy/rCuLGuhxAf9GlWDWcs8= X-Sasl-enc: LwXWVnQL7VVb3xM1pmQcIp1mF5hpTXTsF1wWXpOiVKhC 1264505878 Received: from localhost.localdomain (whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.12]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B77193A977D; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:37:57 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8pre) Gecko/20100121 Lightning/1.0b2pre Shredder/3.0.2pre In-Reply-To: <43d8ce651001250630p51761f6eyce8b89da6ffcd7b@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: [Re-adding cc culled by John. Bad boy :) ] John Tapsell venit, vidit, dixit 25.01.2010 15:30: > 2010/1/25 Johannes Schindelin : >> Hi, >> >> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Matthieu Moy wrote: >> >>> If you decide to go on with your project, either you want to carry it >>> out alone, or you'll have to convince other developers to join. In the >>> second case, a good starting point would be to explain why the other GUI >>> are not good enough, and why you can't just contribute to them. >> >> Actually, a much better way would be to be positive, not negative. I.e. >> to show something you did, which hopefully entices others to use your >> project (and maybe contribute to it). > > Actually in this case, I don't think that would be good enough. My > first thought would be "why didn't he just add this feature to an > existing GUI rather than reinventing the wheel yet again". So there > would really have to be good reasons why the other GUIs aren't a good > enough starting point A first step may be making the feature matrix in the wiki more honest - I've been meaning to do this for ages... For example, a gui which simply calls "gitk" for history view simply does not support history view according to my books, at least not on the same level (gui *integration*) as guis doing this natively. Or else gitk would have all git-gui features and vice versa... or even plain git, for that matter. Michael