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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: markus.heidelberg@web.de
Cc: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>,
	Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] contrib/difftool: use a separate config namespace for difftool commands
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:42:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7veiwvpvhp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200903172054.46063.markus.heidelberg@web.de> (Markus Heidelberg's message of "Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:54:45 +0100")

Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> writes:

> David Aguilar, 10.03.2009:
>> On  0, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:12 AM, David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >  contrib/difftool/git-difftool        |    6 +++---
>> > 
>> > Aside, (for Junio I guess...), what's the reason this command is in
>> > contrib, and by what criteria might it graduate to being installed
>> > with the rest of the git commands?
>> > 
>> > j.
>> 
>> My thoughts (also for Junio, I guess..):
>> 
>> If y'all feel that it can live with the rest of the git
>> commands then that would be great =)
>
> I'd like to see it as a general git tool, too.
> Maybe it can even share some common functionality with git-mergetool.

The code was copied and pasted very heavily, and I think (IIRC) the author
was a bit too ashamed to have it outside contrib/ before it is properly
refactored or something like that.  Which I happen to agree with, by the
way.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-17 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-09  9:12 [PATCH] contrib/difftool: use a separate config namespace for difftool commands David Aguilar
2009-03-09 15:52 ` Jay Soffian
2009-03-10  7:01   ` David Aguilar
2009-03-17 19:54     ` Markus Heidelberg
2009-03-17 23:42       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-03-18  4:35         ` David Aguilar
2009-03-18 10:53           ` Wincent Colaiuta

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