Re: More gitweb queries..

From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: May 28, 2005, 08:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20050528084255.GA32614@vrfy.org>
In-Reply-To: <f0796bb705052718035cd5dbe2@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:03:24PM -0400, Daniel Serpell wrote:

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> Hi!
> 
> On 5/27/05, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 12:24:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > >   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.
> 
> Well, you could draw them in javascript, using
> http://www.walterzorn.com/jsgraphics/jsgraphics_e.htm :-)

You know how that stuff works? :) It is a very nice idea for small stuff, but it uses a <div> for every pixel/line you draw and places this in the background and I expect it to kill your browser if you try to draw things like gitk does.

> Alternatively, you could use a fixed set of little images, a bar "|", a
> dot "o" and branches like "Y", "7" and "\". Obviously, octopus-merges
> are very difficult to draw using only those.

Did you look at gitk? With a all the crossing and long lines, you definitely need to draw the lines with colors. Otherwise you will see _nothing_, but random characters. :)

> BTW, I tried searching on gitweb, and I think that found a problem, see:
> http://ehlo.org/~kay/gitweb.cgi?p=git/git.git;a=search;s=check
> At the bottom of the page, highlighting of the search term stops and the
> commits are all the same color.

Well, you see a list of files which contain the text, not the text itself. I can print the filename in red. :)

Thanks, Kay