Re: [PATCH] interactive: add interactive command helper

Michael Montalbo <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Aug 2026 07:46:04 -0700
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.git
Message-ID <am9Vy9vMsixhaR9E@nixos>
On Sat, Aug 01, 2026 at 11:25:48PM -0400, shrimech wrote:
> Git does not provide a simple interactive entry point for common working-tree and history operations.
> 
> Add a new git interactive command that presents a terminal menu for common operations, including status, adding changed files, log, graph output, branch listing, and help.
> 

Git comes with built-in GUI tools in git-gui and gitk. Also there are
several third-party frontends[1] available for Git. Why add another
built-in interactive interface instead of modify or adding to what
already exists?

[1] https://git-scm.com/tools/guis

> diff --git a/git-interactive b/git-interactive
> new file mode 100755
> index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..980a21c967d02ab121a54ee586cc9de4a98aa725
> GIT binary patch
>

I think including this binary patch was a mistake?