Nigel Magnay <nigel.magnay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > git-gui is good though - but there's a few things I wish it had. I > often find the need to flip between git gui and gitk (for a 'where the > heck am I at the moment' overview) - the 2 tools seems to confuse > people coming at git, even given 'visualize branch'. Yup. I haven't tried to reimplement a visualizer in git-gui, nor have I tried to embed gitk into git-gui. Both would take a great deal of work I think (though embedding gitk is likely easier) and I just have too many things going on to pursue this myself. If someone showed patches for this, I'd definately try to get them included. > It'd be nice to > be able to add files / directories to .gitignore, Always been a "wishlist" feature for git-gui. Paul Mackerras' gitool prototype (which is what seeded git-gui) had this feature, but it was never carried into git-gui. Again, patches welcome. :-) > and to view the > staged/unstaged changes as trees - helpful for when a build has > created a non-ignored directory with thousands of files. Yea. And when that happens to me I immediately slap the directory into my .gitignore or .git/info/exclude and rescan to make the huge pile of untracked files disappear. So a tree view in git-gui has never been something I wanted. Trees in Tcl/Tk are also horrible to implement. The toolkit just has never been very good at that sort of thing. > Maybe I > should get qgit - but git gui has the massive advantage of being in > every install by default, and so is available in msysgit. Yes, I have to admit that git-gui's popularity among git users has a _lot_ to do with the simple fact that it ships out of the box as part of Junio's git releases. Since most git users have Tcl/Tk available so they can use gitk, git-gui is also ready-to-go, with no extra libs needed on your system. However, QGit is also a good program, and has many loyal users. There are benefits and drawbacks to both GUIs. > Whilst I'm thinking about it - I'm surprised in retrospect how little > prominence the index is given in the frontends I've seen. Really? git-gui is all about the index. > It's easy, > coming from SVN, to gloss over the index as the same as just checking > off files at commit time, and miss stuff like 'git add --patch' and > 'git mergetool' altogether. Right click on a hunk in the diff pane in git-gui and stage/unstage it? Its about as good as `git add --patch`. Or better, depending on how you work. -- 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
