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From: merlyn@stonehenge•com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce•org>
Cc: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Many gits are offline this week
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:37:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ve9i1ztl.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071007170153.GX2137@spearce.org> (Shawn O. Pearce's message of "Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:01:53 -0400")

>>>>> "Shawn" == Shawn O Pearce <spearce@spearce•org> writes:

Shawn> What, no mention of git-gui as a porcelain?  It has more users
Shawn> than qgit according to the survey.  Maybe rephrase the porcelains
Shawn> on slide 15 as:

Shawn>   Other porcelain exists:
Shawn>     - StGit ("stacked git"), guilt
Shawn>     - tig (curses-based viewer)
Shawn>     - qgit, git-gui

git-gui should have been mentioned with "the git distro".  Fixed.

Shawn> On slide 26 you say "gitk mytopic origin" shows the changes back to
Shawn> the common ancestor.  That's what "gitk mytopic...origin" would do.
Shawn> Note the three dots instead of the space.  The space will cause
Shawn> gitk to show all history back to the beginning of time.

Darned inconsistency!  Sometimes, it's a space.  Sometimes it's two dots.
Sometimes, it's three dots.  I know, there's reasons for that, but it's still
hard for the newbie.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-07 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-05  1:04 Many gits are offline this week Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-05  1:27 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-10-05  1:36   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-05  1:43   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-05  1:59   ` alan
2007-10-05  9:14   ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2007-10-05 13:12     ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-10-05 14:41       ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-10-05 16:20         ` David Brown
2007-10-05 17:19           ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-10-05 18:33             ` Jeff King
2007-10-07 17:01       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-07 19:04         ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-10-07 22:31           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-07 23:09             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-07 19:37         ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2007-10-28 10:07   ` Mike Hommey
2007-10-05  1:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-07  4:59   ` Steven Grimm
2007-10-05 15:13 ` Frank Lichtenheld
2007-10-05 20:26   ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-06  9:05 ` Lars Hjemli

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