Re: announce: git browser

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Dec 5, 2005, 23:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20051205232626.GH22159@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <40b2b7d90512041720i65f63ee1pcfe32d2c0c3c357b@mail.gmail.com>

Dear diary, on Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:20:39AM CET, I got a letter where Artem Khodush <greenkaa@gmail.com> said that...

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> On 12/5/05, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> >   * I would find it much nicer if you wouldn't "squeeze" all the day's
> > (except merge) commits together, but left them separate. Possibly a
> > switch to squeeze them, but I'm really not sure if it's even useful to
> > have.
> 
> Well it's easy to do, but then, in Linus tree, a single day would not fit
> on my screen :-) So 'squeezed' mode is helpful for me, at least,
>  to get big picture at a glance - in git tree, for example, I can see
> the 0.99.5 release branch to  begin and end on a single screen.

I see. Well, how useful the big picture is? (Or rather the part of it you don't get by just looking at the current state.)

> >   * The line graphics etc. might be more colourful and prettier. ;-)
> 
> And the question is: the colours are assigned to what:
> branches ? authors ? committers ? repositories ?

Branches for easy visual distinguishing of what line is what, I guess. Coloring based on repositories in particular would be very hard.

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