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Re: Prototype git commit viewer

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Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date
May 9, 2005, 22:12 UTC
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<17023.57405.35272.46557@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
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Petr Baudis writes:
> What are its advantages to git-viz?

As a kernel developer, when I do a pull from Linus' tree, the question I want to ask is "who has been making what changes?" That's why gitk shows the headline and author of each of 30 commits in one screenful. AFAICS from the screenshots, git-viz doesn't give me that density of information (and neither did bk revtool, for that matter).

It seems to me that git-viz makes the graph topology the primary thing and the details of the commits the secondary thing. I want it the other way around.

Paul.
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  4. Benjamin HerrenschmidtMay 9, 2005
  5. Paul MackerrasMay 9, 2005
  6. Petr BaudisMay 10, 2005
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  8. Paul MackerrasMay 10, 2005
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