From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:35:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] gitweb wishlist and TODO list
Message-ID: <200606212235.53586.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <200606211838.50864.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Wednesday 21 June 2006 18:38, you wrote:
> Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> > Let's see. A think a mixture between current history and log...
> > Currently, it looks like this
> > 
> >  http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=git/git.git;a=history;f=Documentation
> > 
> > gives you the history of subdirectory Documentation/ of git
> > (unfortunately only reachable via changing the URL...).
> > 
> > And it could look as attached (I did a little copy/paste of
> > HTML). I only modified 2 commits of the list...
> 
> It probably didn't get to mailing list (at least to archives) due 
> to having attachement.

Yes; the mailing list regarded as spam because of the attachment.

> I thought you wanted to enhance tree view,

That wasn't me ;-)

> e.g. adding to the view like in 
> 
>   http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=git/git.git;a=tree;f=Documentation
> 
> columns 'Changed by' or 'Author', 'Age' or 'Last changed', 'Commit' 
> (i.e. abbreviated sha1 id of a commit), and perhaps shortened commit
> message (short description of changes, a la shortlog but shorther).

Yes, sometimes this could be interesting. However, as said above,
I find myself often looking for date sorting with such views.

> In other words 'blame'/'annotate' for directory. Which would need new git
> command I think.

Hmmm... wouldn't "git-log --summary", and building up a map from files names
to commits be enough? You would probably need to parse the full history before
sending any output, so it is potentially heavy. 

> Adding filtered list of files modified by commit in log and history views 
> should be fairly easy...

Yes. If I get some time, I'll send a patch.

Josef