On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 02:16:45AM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote: >> Only this: Junio said that there are no major downsides to this change >> - and given the slow pace of change in gitk/git-gui, this is probably >> true - but are there any *upsides*? What problem does this solve? > > One minor complaint with the current setup is that browsing the history > with path limiting is unintuitive. You can't do "gitk gitk" in the > gitk-git directory. You must instead do "cd .. && gitk -- gitk". Arguably this would be an encouragement to fix the path limiting code, in a similar way that people expect switching to a submodule setup to encourage people to fix submodules :) Have fun, Avery -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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