Re: gitk-1.0 released

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: May 19, 2005, 13:24 UTC
Message-ID: <20050519132411.GA29111@elte.hu>
In-Reply-To: <17036.36624.911071.810357@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

* Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:

> I have released a new version of gitk.  I got brave and called it 1.0
> and it is at:
> 
> 	http://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk-1.0

very nice! Works well and it's pretty fast on a 2GHz P4.

a bugreport: when looking at the main git history, the following commit seems to be rendered incorrectly:

 211232bae64bcc60bbf5d1b5e5b2344c22ed767e

The "Octopus merge ..." text is incorrectly overlayed with a graph line.

here's a feature wishlist if you dont mind:

- the ability to copy & paste from all the windows would be nice. (e.g. 
  in the bugreport above i had to type down the "Octopus merge .." text 
  instead of pasting it from gitk)

- i guess this one is on your todo list: the history graph of a single
  object (file).

- first window appearance on an uncached repository can be pretty slow 
  due to disk seeks - so it might make sense to display something (an 
  hourglass?) sooner - when i first started it i thought it hung. On 
  already cached repositories the window comes up immediately, and the 
  list of commits is updated dynamically.

(and the biggest missing feature of GIT right now is author + last-commit annotated file viewing which could be integrated into gitk a'ka BK's revtool: selecting a given line of the file would bring one to that commit, etc.)

	Ingo