Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, sean wrote: > > > > lol, that sounds like a really good plan. Perhaps as a two pronged effort > > its worth changing the notion that git is primarily "plumbing". Adding > > some of the nice features of cogito and other "porcelains" into the core > > git might go a ways toward converting the few naysayers we don't kill. > > Actually, as far as I can tell, git already has a hell of a lot more > porcelain than pretty much any non-IDE type traditional SCM. Certainly > more than CVS. > > Yeah, I'm not counting things like Eclipse etc. I'm talking about "plain > SCM" environments, ie just basic SVN or CVS. What are we missing in that > department? (The only thing I can think of is a diff colorizer, which some > prople seem to really want). A pretty native point-and-click Windows GUI so Windows users can use GIT without knowing how to actually use their computer. :-) I'm not trying to bash Windows users. I'm just saying that there's definately a large user base for SCMs such as CVS who just want to check in the latest version of a file they have to maintain. Many of these people are afraid of a command prompt. Asking them to install Cygwin just to check in a file is a difficult challenge. And even if a user is perfectly comfortable with a command prompt and could write one-line scripts faster than anyone else, sometimes users just prefer a GUI interface. qgit probably comes close in this department but hasn't been packaged up into a pretty Windows installer. :-) But your definately right; once the blame/annotate war settles out GIT will have pretty much everything one might need - except a good distributed bug/issue tracking type system. :-) -- Shawn. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html