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From: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>
To: Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Gilbert <rcq8n2xf3v@liamekaens.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] git-gui: revert untracked files by deleting them
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 20:51:56 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191119152156.tzsh2hxgcgcegvtt@yadavpratyush.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.436.v4.git.1573973770.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On 17/11/19 06:56AM, Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget wrote:
>  * The initialization code in git-gui.sh (which I'm assuming 
>  translates
>    somehow to git-gui.tcl in the installation?) now explicitly clears the

Well, the design is a bit strange. git-gui.sh happens to be _both_ a 
shell script and a Tcl script. When you run './git-gui.sh', it is 
executed as a shell script. That shell script then executes itself via 
'wish' (which is the Tcl/Tk windowing shell), and Tcl ignores the first 
"line" (it is actually the lines 3-10, but they all have an escaped 
newline so it is effectively a single line).

It has been like since the very first revision of git-gui. I wonder why 
the original author went with this instead of just doing something like:

  #!/usr/bin/env wish

which seems to work just fine on my quick testing, but that is another 
topic entirely ;)

>    "Initializing..." status bar text, since the new status bar model won't
>    do this automatically when operations are performed.

PS: I am in the process of reviewing the latest revision of the patch 
series. But I have been short on free time recently so it might take me 
a couple more days.

-- 
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-19 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-30  6:48 [PATCH 0/2] git-gui: revert untracked files by deleting them Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-10-30  6:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] git-gui: consolidate naming conventions Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-11-03  0:27   ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-10-30  6:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] git-gui: revert untracked files by deleting them Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-11-03  7:44   ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-11-04 16:04     ` Jonathan Gilbert
2019-11-04 17:36     ` Jonathan Gilbert
2019-10-30  9:06 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Bert Wesarg
2019-10-30 17:16   ` Jonathan Gilbert
2019-11-03  1:12     ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-11-03  4:41       ` Jonathan Gilbert
2019-11-03  7:54         ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-11-07  7:05 ` [PATCH v2 " Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-11-07  7:05   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] git-gui: consolidate naming conventions Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-11-07  7:05   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] git-gui: revert untracked files by deleting them Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-11-11 19:25     ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-11-11 21:55       ` Jonathan Gilbert
2019-11-11 22:59         ` Philip Oakley
2019-11-12  4:49           ` Jonathan Gilbert
2019-11-12 10:45             ` Philip Oakley
2019-11-12 16:29               ` Jonathan Gilbert
2019-11-26 11:22                 ` Philip Oakley
2019-11-12 19:35         ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-11-11 19:35   ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Pratyush Yadav
2019-11-13  9:56   ` [PATCH v3 " Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-11-13  9:56     ` [PATCH v3 1/2] git-gui: consolidate naming conventions Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-11-13  9:56     ` [PATCH v3 2/2] git-gui: revert untracked files by deleting them Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-11-16 15:11       ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-11-16 21:42         ` Jonathan Gilbert
2019-11-17  6:56     ` [PATCH v4 0/2] " Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-11-17  6:56       ` [PATCH v4 1/2] git-gui: consolidate naming conventions Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-11-17  6:56       ` [PATCH v4 2/2] git-gui: revert untracked files by deleting them Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-11-24 13:09         ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-11-19 15:21       ` Pratyush Yadav [this message]
2019-11-19 16:56         ` [PATCH v4 0/2] " Jonathan Gilbert
2019-11-24 20:37       ` [PATCH v5 0/3] " Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-11-24 20:37         ` [PATCH v5 1/3] git-gui: consolidate naming conventions Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-11-24 20:37         ` [PATCH v5 2/3] git-gui: update status bar to track operations Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-11-27 21:55           ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-11-28  7:34             ` Jonathan Gilbert
2019-11-24 20:37         ` [PATCH v5 3/3] git-gui: revert untracked files by deleting them Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-11-27 22:03           ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-11-28  8:30         ` [PATCH v6 0/3] " Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-11-28  8:30           ` [PATCH v6 1/3] git-gui: consolidate naming conventions Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-11-28  8:30           ` [PATCH v6 2/3] git-gui: update status bar to track operations Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-11-30 23:05             ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-12-01  2:12               ` Jonathan Gilbert
2019-12-01 11:43               ` Philip Oakley
2019-12-01 20:09                 ` Jonathan Gilbert
2019-11-28  8:30           ` [PATCH v6 3/3] git-gui: revert untracked files by deleting them Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-12-01  2:28           ` [PATCH v7 0/3] " Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-12-01  2:28             ` [PATCH v7 1/3] git-gui: consolidate naming conventions Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-12-01  2:28             ` [PATCH v7 2/3] git-gui: update status bar to track operations Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2020-02-26  8:24               ` Benjamin Poirier
2020-03-02 18:14                 ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-12-01  2:28             ` [PATCH v7 3/3] git-gui: revert untracked files by deleting them Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget
2019-12-05 18:54             ` [PATCH v7 0/3] " Pratyush Yadav

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