From: Petr Baudis Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 00:03:57 GMT Subject: Re: Prototype git commit viewer Message-ID: <20050510000357.GG15712@pasky.ji.cz> In-Reply-To: <17023.57405.35272.46557@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Dear diary, on Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:12:13AM CEST, I got a letter where Paul Mackerras told me that... > 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. Yes, it looks indeed pretty nice, I have to say after actually looking at it. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor