I just sent you a patch for Makefile in git.git to build git-gui.
I've also setup things so git-gui's versions track independently of
git, yet the correct versions are embedded into the release tarball
and executable in both the standalone and embedded-in-git cases.
A true subproject!
For this to work the gitgui-* tags need to be fetched into your
repository. I also took the assumption that the git-gui subdirectory
is never modified in git.git, but only through merging git-gui's
commit history.
To play nice I'm prefixing the git-gui tags with 'gitgui-', rather
than 'v', so that they don't conflict with git's own version numbers
within the refs/tags namespace.
I am signing gitgui tags with a GPG key. For ease of distribution
my public key was tagged under spearce-gpg-pub. The hash for
spearce-gpg-pub is 8bb563fb25a372a9cb14f0a9b9015d409fd82c16.
I'm not sure if it makes sense to push the gitgui-* tags (or
spearce-gpg-pub) to the public git.git repository. If these tags
aren't present then git-gui will fail to get its version number
and fallback on the hardcoded value in git-gui/GIT-VERSION-GEN.
Anyone who really cares that this is correct could just fetch
the tags on their own from repo.or.cz.
Here's the script I was working with to merge git-gui into git.git:
-->8--
#!/bin/sh
remote=git-gui
branch=master
git-fetch $remote &&
ggh=$(git-rev-parse $remote/$branch) &&
ggt=$(git-rev-parse $ggh^{tree}) &&
tree=$(git ls-tree HEAD \
| sed "/ git-gui/s/tree .* /tree $ggt /" \
| git mktree) &&
git-read-tree -m -u --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore HEAD $tree &&
git-update-ref ORIG_HEAD HEAD &&
git-update-ref MERGE_HEAD $ggh &&
msg="Merge branch '$branch' of $(git-config remote.$remote.url)
Update to version $(git describe --abbrev=4 $ggh).
" &&
echo "$msg" >.git/MERGE_MSG &&
echo "Merge complete. Please commit the result." ||
exit
-->8--
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Shawn.
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