A new commit tool

[Steve Borho]

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 9:47 am, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Steve Borho wrote:
> > I'd like to announce the start of a new commit tool.  It's not yet
> > functional, but I would like feedback on the interface before I go
> > too far down any dead ends.
> >
> > http://hg.borho.org/qct/
> > http://www.borho.org/~steve/qct-snapshot.png
>
> I've been usin '[h]ct' on linux - and it appears to work reasonably
> well.  However its web page is no longer accessable - so its not
> clear where its headed.. http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct

It's been offline for some time.  It seems the developer has 
graduated :)  I also have it installed locally, but no longer have the 
source code to it.  I thought someone was mirroring their git 
repository in mercurial somewhere, but I've been unable to locate it.

> Is this new commit tool based on hct [which is qt3 based] - or
> something from scratch?

It's from scratch, mainly because gct was git-centric with an hg backend 
hacked into it.  I'd like to make qct more portable from the start.  If 
I can find the gct code, though, I will likely borrow from it 
liberally.

> My opinion is - hct is sufficiently functional for me on linux - but
> I guess the new qt4 based tool will be useful for Mac users..

Mac and Windows, both.

> A note on the feature list: The primary reason I prefer 'hg ct' over
> 'hg commit' is the ability to choose files to be part of the commit.
> I hope this feature is implemented as intutively as in hct..

Yep, I hope to improve on this usefulness by adding support for unknown, 
missing, and ignored files.

-- 
Steve Borho (steve at borho.org)
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