Hi,

On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

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> I'm impressed. Pretty much everything I tried today worked for me. After 
> I got git gui running, and learned how to avoid pitfalls of git 
> submodule, development went smoothly.

Thanks!

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> I could also think of a fail safe update, that allows to upgrade an 
> existing msysgit to a specific tag (maybe after stashing the current 
> installation and reverting in case of problems).

It's pretty early to think about stable releases, let alone upgrades ;-)

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> Maybe git gui could be integrated with the Windows Explorer and be 
> launched on a directory. Maybe this is one of your evil plans. But this 
> is already more than I need.

That is already in the works.  An alpha version is already working.

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> What do you think is needed to merge changes back to git.git? I counted 
> approximately 20k diff lines (incl. context) between msysgit's git 
> master and git.git's master. At a first glance much of them seem to be 
> compatibility stuff.

It is _all_ compatibility stuff.

Basically, it all boils down to grabbing a specific part of the diff 
related to a certain concept (such as NO_IPV6), and whip the patch 
(series) into shape.

Submit it to git.git.  Work on it until it is part of the official 
distribution.

Continue with the next part of the diff.

Ciao,
Dscho

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