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authorLibravatar Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>2017-01-12 21:32:39 +0000
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-01-13 12:22:43 -0800
commitb6ca73d9adaba0d4af87ef2cf97165d6709eaba2 (patch)
tree459666c0c2a58be131c832f5cd72233ba8205a94
parentdoc: gitk: remove gitview reference (diff)
downloadtgif-b6ca73d9adaba0d4af87ef2cf97165d6709eaba2.tar.xz
doc: gitk: add the upstream repo location
Match the 'git gui' information regarding the graphical browser and its upstream location. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitk.txt b/Documentation/gitk.txt
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@@ -178,9 +178,15 @@ used by default. If '$XDG_CONFIG_HOME' is not set it defaults to
History
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Gitk was the first graphical repository browser. It's written in
-tcl/tk and started off in a separate repository but was later merged
-into the main Git repository.
+tcl/tk.
+'gitk' is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable
+versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convenience
+of end users.
+
+gitk-git/ comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project:
+
+ git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk
SEE ALSO
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