Re: More gitweb queries..

From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: May 27, 2005, 23:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20050527235924.GB19491@vrfy.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505271145570.17402@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 12:24:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>  - looking around, the ALSA guys aren't the only ones that start off with 
>    an empty line, so it's probably worth fixing the summary etc to ignore 
>    whitespace at the beginning rather than give empty summary reasons.

That is already fixed a few days ago, but unfortunately only in my devel version. After the catch-up on the recent format changes of the git-output, I need to wait now until the new git-binaries are hitting kernel.org.

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>  - any reason to limit the "summary" page to just the last 14 changes? The 
>    "log" thing you can ask to go back further, it would be nice to have
>    something like a "last 100" thing for summaries too, especially since 
>    the summary is so nice and dense, so you can actually get a nice view 
>    of what has happened without scrolling _too_ much.

Yes, I recognized that too. Jeff asked for branches and I did the summary
page just for the branches. :) With that I realized that the dense log of the
summary is sometimes nicer than the full log. How about this:
  http://ehlo.org/~kay/gitweb.cgi?p=git/git.git;a=shortlog

It is reachable on the summary page by clicking in the title of the shortlog.

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>  - I was in the "commitdiff" thing, and initially thought that there was 
>    no way to get back to the "summary" view.
> 
>    It turns out I was wrong (the summary is reachable by just clicking at
>    the project name itself in the top header), but it's a bit strange that
>    the "commitdiff" thing has an explicit link back to itself (hey, 
>    consistency is good, so I'm not complaining)

Well, yes I was trying to get a navigation which is not changing with every new page... It's not an active link now. Maybe that's better.

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>    but the link back to the
>    summary page is implicit.
> 
>    So how about adding an explicit "summary" link to the list of other 
>    explicit links (log, commit, commitdiff and tree) at the top of the 
>    page?

Done! That was easy. It will show up on kernel.org when the actual git-binaries are installed.

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> I actually like browsing other peoples projects with the gitweb
> interfaces, it's both responsive and verbose enough to really say
> something good. In contrast, cvsweb is always just a mess of "these are
> the files, go at it", which is totally pointless and doesn't tell anything
> about what is actually happening in the project.
> 
> So dammit, I'm very biased indeed, but I'm just looking at gitweb, and
> comparing it to both the CVS and SVN web things, and they just reinforce
> my conviction that CVS is absolute crap, and I find myself surprised by
> how crap SVN also appears.

Good to hear that. It's a long road to make software from "working" to "nice to use". That was probably never the goal of some SCM-web-interfaces. :)

>   Combining some of the features of the two (that über-cool revision 
>   history graph from gitk rules, for example) might be cool. I get the 
>   urge to do octopus-merges in the kernel just because of how good they
>   look in gitk ;) ]

I would like to show something like the graph too, but I don't really know how to do this in html. Seems slippery if not impossible. If anybody has a nice idea how to represent that, I will give it a try.

Kay