Gitk is now maintained by Johannes Sixt and the repository can be cloned from a new URL. b59358100c20 (Update the official repo of gitk, 2024-12-24) could have updated this instance in the manual, too, but the opportunity was missed. Update it now. Do give credit to Paul Mackerras as the inventor of the program. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> --- I just noticed that I would have removed the last user-visible mention of Paul. Don't do that. Documentation/gitk.adoc | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/gitk.adoc b/Documentation/gitk.adoc index 58ce40ddb1..5b34dcd077 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitk.adoc +++ b/Documentation/gitk.adoc @@ -163,16 +163,16 @@ used by default. If '$XDG_CONFIG_HOME' is not set it defaults to History ------- -Gitk was the first graphical repository browser. It's written in -tcl/tk. +Gitk was the first graphical repository browser, written by +Paul Mackerras in Tcl/Tk. 'gitk' is actually maintained as an independent project, but stable versions are distributed as part of the Git suite for the convenience of end users. -gitk-git/ comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project: +`gitk-git/` comes from Johannes Sixt's gitk project: - git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk + https://github.com/j6t/gitk SEE ALSO -------- -- 2.51.0.205.g9a02ae2892 1: 5a2ed392c1 ! 1: 48668308f7 doc/gitk: update reference to the external project @@ Commit message Gitk is now maintained by Johannes Sixt and the repository can be cloned from a new URL. b59358100c20 (Update the official repo of gitk, 2024-12-24) could have updated this instance in the manual, - too, but the opportunity was missed. Update it now. + too, but the opportunity was missed. Update it now. Do give credit + to Paul Mackerras as the inventor of the program. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> ## Documentation/gitk.adoc ## -@@ Documentation/gitk.adoc: tcl/tk. +@@ Documentation/gitk.adoc: used by default. If '$XDG_CONFIG_HOME' is not set it defaults to + + History + ------- +-Gitk was the first graphical repository browser. It's written in +-tcl/tk. ++Gitk was the first graphical repository browser, written by ++Paul Mackerras in 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.
