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Re: [PATCH gitweb] Visually indicating patch size with horizontal bars

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KSKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date
Oct 28, 2005, 01:56 UTC
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<20051027203945.GC1622@pe.Belkin>
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 04:39:45PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> 
> I really like gitweb (thanks Kay!), but I thought it would be nice to
> have a visual indication of patch size.  I found this helpful when
> scanning though the shortlogs.

This looks nice, but if the patch size tells you something important, your commit subjects are probably too short or wrong. :)

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> To see what it looks like with the gitweb for gitweb (meta-gitweb?)
> goto:
> 
> http://www.codesifter.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gitweb.git;a=shortlog
> 
> I rather like the look of what I've hacked up (the enclosed patch),
> but it should be considered as just a prototype: it only affects the
> shortlog, it's horribly inefficient, and I don't really do perl.  :)
> 
> If anyone thinks this is a good feature, then please tell me an
> efficient way to get some heuristic of the patch size.

You may try to use CSS instead of an embedded picture to draw the bar, just like the RSS logo in the footer, which is simple CSS rendered in the browser.

Kay
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  1. Visually indicating patch size with horizontal barsChris Shoemaker, Oct 27, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 27, 2005
  3. Chris ShoemakerOct 27, 2005
  4. Linus TorvaldsOct 28, 2005
  5. Chris ShoemakerOct 28, 2005
  6. Martin LanghoffOct 28, 2005
  7. H. Peter AnvinOct 28, 2005
  8. Andreas EricssonOct 28, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoOct 28, 2005
  10. Martin LanghoffOct 28, 2005
  11. Linus TorvaldsOct 28, 2005
  12. Junio C HamanoOct 28, 2005
  13. Linus TorvaldsOct 28, 2005
  14. Kay SieversOct 28, 2005
  15. Chris ShoemakerOct 28, 2005
  16. Petr BaudisNov 1, 2005
  17. Martin LanghoffNov 1, 2005
  18. Petr BaudisNov 1, 2005
  19. Andreas EricssonNov 2, 2005
  20. Johannes SchindelinNov 2, 2005
  21. Andreas EricssonNov 2, 2005
  22. Johannes SchindelinNov 2, 2005
  23. Chris ShoemakerNov 2, 2005
  24. Kay SieversNov 2, 2005
  25. Petr BaudisDec 5, 2005
  26. Chris ShoemakerDec 5, 2005
  27. Josef WeidendorferOct 28, 2005

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