Sverre Rabbelier <alturin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > That is probably difficult. Some of the code internally is more > > about stringing the right sequence of plumbing together than it > > is about a particular user action. I think it would take a bit of > > work to make it do this, and I just don't see a reason to do it. > > The reason would be to make the switch from using git-gui only to > using the commandline too... the again, it'd be cutting your own hand > (or is it "throat" in English...) to make that transition easier. I'm not worried about users leaving git-gui. Hell, if git-gui was just git on training wheels and all git users left git-gui after a while for the command line that would be telling as it says the graphical interface is not desired. Or that git-gui's interface is not well suited to the task. Far from it. Some users like git-gui for its ability to show the modified files, and let you stage/unstage individual hunks. Others like its ability to perform checkout+pull in one mouse click. Many like to point at things with a rodent than to use the keyboard and enter (to them) isoteric commands. Right now there are really only two git GUIs; git-gui and QGit. Each has its strengths. Maybe this time next year we will have a 3rd; name yet to be determined but it would come out of the egit/jgit project as a stand-alone SWT/Java based Git UI. > > CVS clients that show CVS commands can easily do so, because they > > are directly executing the commands they show you. This is likely > > also true of SVN commands. But git-gui on Git, that's a whole > > different animal. > > Ah, I didn't realise git-gui does stuff that you can't really do > through the regular porcelain. In that case it would indeed be > impossible to print the regular porcelain commands. I think the > '--trace' option should be advertised as 'debugging option' so that > the user can see what is going on in the case something goes wrong > perhaps? Yes. I'll send Junio a patch for Documentation/git-gui.txt and describe it as a debugging option, and also mention that the commands it displays aren't all meant to be invoked by mortals. -- Shawn. -- 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
