Brett Schwarz writes: > What is the real issue? Is it that there isn't enough people to The real issue is that I would like, if possible, to make it easier for people like Linus to hack on gitk and add cool features that I wouldn't necessarily think of. > maintain gitk? I've been hiding in the bushes, mostly because of > time issues, but if there's a real need, I'd be willing to help. I'm > a seasoned Tcl/Tk coder, and wouldn't have any problems helping > out. That could be very useful, thanks. > As Shawn mentions below, he started using namespaces for git-gui. I > think gitk could benefit from that as well, along with a few other > changes. Gitk ends up handling pretty significant amounts of data. In particular the per-commit data can get to gigabytes, and processing it is pretty cpu-intensive. I did try using namespaces for the per-commit data but I found that the performance hit to be more than I was willing to tolerate. Paul. - 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