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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,  Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] doc/gitk: update reference to the external project
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 08:34:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqv7miatxa.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <249056e7-1332-4e6f-8d07-16c80fd4913e@kdbg.org> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Wed, 20 Aug 2025 08:16:05 +0200")

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

> Gitk is now maintained by Johannes Sixt and the repository can be
> cloned from a new URL. b59358100c20 (Update the official repo of
> gitk, 2024-12-24) could have updated this instance in the manual,
> too, but the opportunity was missed. Update it now. Do give credit
> to Paul Mackerras as the inventor of the program.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> ---

Thanks for the update.  This is long overdue.  I forgot that this
manual page was carried in my tree.

>  I just noticed that I would have removed the last user-visible
>  mention of Paul. Don't do that.
>
>  Documentation/gitk.adoc | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/gitk.adoc b/Documentation/gitk.adoc
> index 58ce40ddb1..5b34dcd077 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gitk.adoc
> +++ b/Documentation/gitk.adoc
> @@ -163,16 +163,16 @@ used by default. If '$XDG_CONFIG_HOME' is not set it defaults to
>  
>  History
>  -------
> -Gitk was the first graphical repository browser. It's written in
> -tcl/tk.
> +Gitk was the first graphical repository browser, written by
> +Paul Mackerras in Tcl/Tk.
>  
>  'gitk' is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable
>  versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convenience
>  of end users.
>  
> -gitk-git/ comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project:
> +`gitk-git/` comes from Johannes Sixt's gitk project:
>  
> -	git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk
> +	https://github.com/j6t/gitk
>  
>  SEE ALSO
>  --------

  reply	other threads:[~2025-08-20 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-19  8:18 [PATCH 0/3] meson: wire up gitk and git-gui Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-19  8:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] git-gui: move into "subprojects/" Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-19  9:36   ` Karthik Nayak
2025-08-19  8:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] gitk: " Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-20  5:49   ` [PATCH] doc/gitk: update reference to the external project Johannes Sixt
2025-08-20  6:16     ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Sixt
2025-08-20 15:34       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2025-08-19  8:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] meson: wire up gitk and git-gui Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-19  9:40   ` Karthik Nayak
2025-08-24 17:25     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-19 15:49 ` [PATCH 0/3] " Junio C Hamano
2025-08-24 17:25   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-26  0:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-02 13:00       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-19 22:25 ` Ramsay Jones
2025-08-24 17:25   ` Patrick Steinhardt

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