Where do I send patches for git-gui?

Where do I send patches for git-gui?

[Pratyush Yadav]

Hi,

I have a quick little feature to add to git-gui, and I'm wondering where 
should I discuss it and send patches. The git-gui repo [0] has no readme 
I can see that would point me in the right direction. Googling around 
didn't get me anything either.

Should I send it here on this list or is it somewhere else?

Also, is the project even actively maintained any more? The last commit 
was in 2017.

[0] http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git/

-- 
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav

Re: Where do I send patches for git-gui?

[Christian Couder]

Hi Pratyush,

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 11:43 PM Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com> wrote:
>
> I have a quick little feature to add to git-gui, and I'm wondering where
> should I discuss it and send patches. The git-gui repo [0] has no readme
> I can see that would point me in the right direction. Googling around
> didn't get me anything either.
>
> Should I send it here on this list or is it somewhere else?

It seems to me that people have been sending patches to git-gui to
this mailing list indeed.

According to the following discussions:

  - https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqbm36w7hl.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/
  - https://public-inbox.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1905272135280.28524@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet/

Pat Thoyts (in CC) used to be the git-gui maintainer but we haven't
been hearing from him for a long time, so we are looking for a new
maintainer.





> Also, is the project even actively maintained any more? The last commit
> was in 2017.

Re: Where do I send patches for git-gui?

[Pratyush Yadav]

On 25/07/19 5:04 PM, Christian Couder wrote:
> Hi Pratyush,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 11:43 PM Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a quick little feature to add to git-gui, and I'm wondering where
>> should I discuss it and send patches. The git-gui repo [0] has no readme
>> I can see that would point me in the right direction. Googling around
>> didn't get me anything either.
>>
>> Should I send it here on this list or is it somewhere else?
> 
> It seems to me that people have been sending patches to git-gui to
> this mailing list indeed.

All right, I'll send it here.

> According to the following discussions:
> 
>    - https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqbm36w7hl.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/
>    - https://public-inbox.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1905272135280.28524@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet/
> 
> Pat Thoyts (in CC) used to be the git-gui maintainer but we haven't
> been hearing from him for a long time, so we are looking for a new
> maintainer.

Ah, that's too bad that there is no active maintainer. I recently 
switched my text editor from Atom to Vim, and the only thing I am 
missing is Atom's gui for looking at diffs and resolving merge 
conflicts. I've only used git-gui for a couple days, but it looks like 
just the tool I need.

I can maintain it (as long as I'm using the tool at least). I'm not 
particularly fluent with Tcl or Tk, but I'm learning them as I implement 
the features I need.

Will I get commit access to the main git repo, or should I use a fork 
and send the changes over here, and one of you folks will merge them?

> 
> 
> 
>> Also, is the project even actively maintained any more? The last commit
>> was in 2017.


-- 
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav

Re: Where do I send patches for git-gui?

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 24 Jul 2019, Pratyush Yadav wrote:

> I have a quick little feature to add to git-gui, and I'm wondering
> where should I discuss it and send patches. The git-gui repo [0] has
> no readme I can see that would point me in the right direction.
> Googling around didn't get me anything either.
>
> Should I send it here on this list or is it somewhere else?
>
> Also, is the project even actively maintained any more? The last commit was in
> 2017.
>
> [0] http://repo.or.cz/w/git-gui.git/

Sadly, it seems that we do not have any active Git GUI maintainer,
indeed.

The latest repository for Git GUI seems to have been
https://github.com/patthoyts/git-gui, but even that has fallen dormant.

Your best bet is to send the patch to this list, and we'll just have to
try to work together to our best abilities to review and improve and
integrate it.

Ciao,
Johannes