"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >> > General question: should this not be in git-gui rather than gitk? Gitk as >> > of now is really more a viewing tool. >> >> Well, yes. But git-gui only works on a single branch head at a time, >> and that is not enough for rebasing. > > Sure. But so does git's command line tools. They tend to only > work on a single branch at time, the one called `HEAD`. "tend", and many accept an explicit override: rebase accepts three commit names, for example. Those that _write_ into the repository usually _end_ up at HEAD, but most need not start there. And git-gui does not have any operation either looking at or working other than on the current HEAD. No diff, no file view, no rebase, nothing. > So "single branch head at a time" is *not* why git-gui doesn't > support rebase. Its because nobody has gotten around to writing it. I never claimed that it is not possible to put a rebase in there (the patch does this, after all). I just said that it does not _fit_ in there since you can't actually look at what you are rebasing on. >> Could git-gui perhaps be merged with giggle at some point of time? > > Unlikely. A while ago I considered "Stay in Tcl/Tk or move to > something more 'powerful/better/faster/Linus friendly'" and stayed > in Tcl/Tk. I doubt git-gui will leave Tcl/Tk. giggle is Gtk based. My bad: git-gui has a nice polished look on my systems (Ubuntu Feisty) while gitk has an ugly retro-blockish old-font Tk look; so not looking at the innards, I had assumed they were implemented using different systems. > I decided that any sort of rebase operation in git-gui must be *at > least* as easy to use/user friendly as `rebase -i` is. Anything > less is just mocking the end-user. Or something like that. Anyway, > since git-gui is restricted to a graphical interface and most such > interfaces have these pointy rodents available we can do fancy > things like dragging to express what we want to have happen, instead > of moving lines of text around. > > Want to write a patch (or series of patches) for git-gui? User interfaces are really not what I am good at, and I don't even have enough time to deal with the things I am good at. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - 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
