From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg•org>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks•im>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] doc/gitk: update reference to the external project
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 08:34:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqv7miatxa.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <249056e7-1332-4e6f-8d07-16c80fd4913e@kdbg.org> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Wed, 20 Aug 2025 08:16:05 +0200")
Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg•org> writes:
> Gitk is now maintained by Johannes Sixt and the repository can be
> cloned from a new URL. b59358100c20 (Update the official repo of
> gitk, 2024-12-24) could have updated this instance in the manual,
> too, but the opportunity was missed. Update it now. Do give credit
> to Paul Mackerras as the inventor of the program.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg•org>
> ---
Thanks for the update. This is long overdue. I forgot that this
manual page was carried in my tree.
> I just noticed that I would have removed the last user-visible
> mention of Paul. Don't do that.
>
> Documentation/gitk.adoc | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/gitk.adoc b/Documentation/gitk.adoc
> index 58ce40ddb1..5b34dcd077 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gitk.adoc
> +++ b/Documentation/gitk.adoc
> @@ -163,16 +163,16 @@ used by default. If '$XDG_CONFIG_HOME' is not set it defaults to
>
> History
> -------
> -Gitk was the first graphical repository browser. It's written in
> -tcl/tk.
> +Gitk was the first graphical repository browser, written by
> +Paul Mackerras in Tcl/Tk.
>
> 'gitk' is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable
> versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convenience
> of end users.
>
> -gitk-git/ comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project:
> +`gitk-git/` comes from Johannes Sixt's gitk project:
>
> - git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk
> + https://github.com/j6t/gitk
>
> SEE ALSO
> --------
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-20 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-19 8:18 [PATCH 0/3] meson: wire up gitk and git-gui Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-19 8:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] git-gui: move into "subprojects/" Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-19 9:36 ` Karthik Nayak
2025-08-19 8:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] gitk: " Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-20 5:49 ` [PATCH] doc/gitk: update reference to the external project Johannes Sixt
2025-08-20 6:16 ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Sixt
2025-08-20 15:34 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2025-08-19 8:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] meson: wire up gitk and git-gui Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-19 9:40 ` Karthik Nayak
2025-08-24 17:25 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-19 15:49 ` [PATCH 0/3] " Junio C Hamano
2025-08-24 17:25 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-26 0:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-02 13:00 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-19 22:25 ` Ramsay Jones
2025-08-24 17:25 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-04 8:38 ` [PATCH v2] " Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-04 10:00 ` Karthik Nayak
2026-02-04 11:56 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-04 17:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-05 6:58 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-05 9:37 ` Jeff King
2026-02-05 11:55 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-06 15:39 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-06 22:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-09 8:32 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-11 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-11 22:41 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-02-11 22:56 ` Junio C Hamano
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