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From: Guilhem Bonnefille <guilhem.bonnefille@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Modern Git GUI
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:39:25 +0100
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Hi,

IMHO, a really important question is: why do we have so many
started-not-terminated GUIs?

My point of view:
- a "good" GUI is a GUI that integrates well with a desktop
- a "good" GUI is a GUI that reuse an already existing/known metaphor
The most difficult is that raw Git is "stupid content tracker". So, a
complete GUI will expose too many features to end-user:
- which workflow: pull, push, email, ssh, ...
- topic branches: rebasing or merging
- and what about higher level feature: stash, stg, top git...
So, reading this, possible good GUIs are plugins for IDE with smallest
Git support.


2010/1/23 Andr=E9 Harms <andre.harms@kuhlsolutions.de>:
> Is there anybody who agrees or disagrees? I really would appreciate
> some feedback about that idea.

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