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This is my fork of the git.git repository. Have a look at it’s Homepage for the original.

Work in progress

• Recursive submodule fetch

List of things needing upstream integration

This is a keyword based description of the features contained in this repo which will eventually be integrated upstream. Once I find the time…​ (items marked with [X] are already finished)

• ❏ review topic merge menu item for git gui

• ❏ compose review email checkbox for topic branches

• ❏ delete dialog after pushing a merged branch in git gui

• ❏ fetch on startup of git gui

• ❏ review protocol (+handler) to ease the processing of review emails

• ❏ export patchseries menu item in gitk

• ❏ substitute invalid characters in branch create/rename

• ❏ status indicator for rebase, am, bisect in git gui like in cli

• ❏ gitk: implement a menuitem to start a rebase onto

• ❏ add git gui question handler to work around files in use on windows

• [X] technical description of ref walking api

• [X] work around problems handling files in use by other programs

• [X] fetch from all remotes menuitem in git gui

• [X] implement a submodule merge strategy

• [X] warn when trying to commit on a detached head in git gui

Branches

This is a short description of the branches which can be found here. WARNING: All branches are work in progress. Use them at your own risk!

hv/gui-improvements

In this branch I collect some improvements of git-gui and gitk which I wrote but have not come around sending them upstream.