On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:34:11AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Graham Percival wrote:
>
> > We've lost 50% of potential contributors to the website because of
> > git.
>
> Fair enough. Maybe it is time to suggest an easy interface to Git? You
> could even write a very simple wrapper around Git that _just_ downloads
> the current version of LilyPond, allows the user to edit the files and
> then click another button to send the patch.
Seriously?! That would be **fantastic**!
I don't think it needs to be a GUI, though. A program or script
that downloads the latest material on the master/ branch, then
produces a patch upon request. Like:
$ git-easy get
(produces lilypond/ with the current master/ branch)
$ cd lilypond/
$ git-easy update
(downloads any updates)
$ vi Documentation/learning.itely
$ git-easy commit
(produces a patch in ../ )
$ git-easy reset
(reverts to exactly the online master/ branch)
I know that a command-line app would be a bit unfamiliar for
windows users, but I'm ok asking them to learn that much.
Cheers,
- Graham
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