Re: Gitk feature - show nearby tags

From: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Date: Jun 3, 2006, 15:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20060603151240.GA4024@diku.dk>
In-Reply-To: <7vslmm8rcd.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote Sat, Jun 03, 2006:

> For a graphical interface like gitk it may not be such a big
> deal (you can always follow the line), but an interface like tig
> that shows commits in a linear fashion it would make a big
> difference in usability.

I already took your hint from the other day on irc and have begun on implementing this revision graph visualization for tig. :)

The problem is of course to come up with some ascii-art which is both readable and dense. Below is my mockup of something not using line graphics, however using line graphics it might be possible to get something more unambiguos but also more "edgy".

	* [release] Sync docs
	M Merge ...
	|`* [master] Fix spelling
	| * Implement ...
	M | Merge ...
	|`M Merge ...
	| |`* Topic B ...
	| | * Topic B ...
	| * | Topic A
	| * | Topic A
	| *' Update docs
	: :
	M | Merge ...
	|`M Merge ...
	| *`. Topic B ...
	| * | Topic B ...
	| | * Topic A
	| | * Topic A
	| *' Update docs
	: :
	M | Merge ...
	|`M Merge ...
	| *`. Topic B ...
	| * | Topic B ...
	| | * Topic A
	M  `.`. Merge
	|`* | | Update docs

-- 
Jonas Fonseca