Posted by Thierry Goubier on Mar 01, 2015; 9:11am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Git-gitfiletree-on-Pharo-vs-Windows-tp4806791p4808630.html

Le 01/03/2015 09:54, Jan B. a écrit :
> A Pharo gui for git would be an excellent thing. As you (and Alan Kay) know,
> simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible... With
> git itself and its command line, there are lots of complex things possible,
> but my opinion is that simple thing are far from simple with git.

I do agree with you on that simple things are far from simple with git
;) and complex things are complex, and things that we shouldn't be doing
are possible :)

> Nice example of git gui I personally like is github for mac (and github for
> windows).
> https://mac.github.com  https://windows.github.com

:( No mac, no windows here...

> Of course, it is just for github, but it contains all things one usually
> needs for commiting, branching etc. in the gui and if something is not so
> simple, it has command line, too.

I think this 'GUI for usual things', 'command line for the rest' is
probably the pragmatic solution.

> So, just for inspiration of overall design... how hard implementation for
> git in general might be, that is another thing.

There is a possibility there, which is offered by libcgit integration in
Pharo. If one wanted to do a full GUI integration, then it could be
easier to do it that way (i.e. low-level access to git concepts, better
mastery of those concepts since their understanding is needed when
integrating into Pharo).. instead of a high-level flying overhead like
GitFileTree does.

Max, Esteban, what do you think?

The other one is to focus on VCS overall, and to consider Monticello GUI
refactoring to support concepts such as branches and external merging,
so that it could be portable to other VCS (svn, mercurial, bazaar) and
support whatever flow is needed out there (see my point during PharoDays
2015).

It could even allow us to let branches appear in .mcz repositories :)

Thierry