On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 12:42:44PM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Am 19.02.25 um 06:53 schrieb Patrick Steinhardt: > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 02:25:43PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> You would want to coordinate this with Johannes Sixt, who may still > >> want to maintain the subtree arrangement. > > > > Anyway, Johannes, I'm happy to evict these changes from this patch > > series and create them as a pull request against your tree. We should > > then also be including the project as a `subproject()` so that it can be > > used standalone. > > We can do that. > > But there will be a time frame where the Git repository already knows > how to (and wants to) build Gitk as subproject, but the Gitk repository > has not been pulled, yet, and is missing the corresponding Meson > instructions. Will this work, or should we wait until Gitk's part has > been integrated in the Git repository? I guess the easiest way is to land the Meson support in gitk first, pull those changes into Git and then I'll create a follow-up patch where we start to use gitk as a subproject. Does that work for you? Patrick
