From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:33:37 GMT
Subject: Re: path-restricted gitk with tags showing up?
Message-ID: <20060801193337.GA93307@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060801231329.82d934a2.vsu@altlinux.ru>

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:13:29PM +0400, Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 19:42:10 +0200 Olivier Galibert wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to do a (f.i) gitk include/sound/asound.h but still see the
> > commits which are in the DAG delimited by the alsa commits and have
> > tags attached.  The aim is to know what changes where in what released
> > kernel version.  Is there a way to do that?
> 
> Since git-1.4.0 gitk shows this information in the "Follows:" and
> "Precedes:" lines for each commit (you need to enable "Display nearby
> tags" in preferences).  In your case, the "Precedes" line will show the
> first kernel version which included the change.
> 
> Note that loading this information takes some time; gitk tries to load
> it in background, so you may see empty "Follows" and "Precedes" lines
> for some time.

Works rather well, thanks.

  OG.