Re: That improved git-gui blame viewer..

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jun 11, 2007, 06:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20070611064203.GG6073@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706091117510.20321@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> That said, I do have one comment about the state of git-gui "pu".. I think 
> it's fairly pretty, and definitely useful,

Thanks! I'm glad at least one other person on this planet finds my work on the blame viewer at least partially useful.

> but one feature I end up really 
> wishing for is a "search" button (or Ctrl-F). I might not know what 
> line-number I'm looking for, I'm more likely to know which function I want 
> to look at, and the most natural way to find it is with a simple ctrl-F.

No, there isn't a search. Tk internally offers one, I just haven't bound UI to it. Ctrl-F is actually bound to page down, much as it is in vi. Actually vi keys work everywhere in git-gui for scrolling.

I pushed out 0.7.3 tonight without search. I'll work on search and jump-to-line this week, and try to get an 0.7.4 early next week with those and maybe some other improvements in the blame viewer that I want to get done.

I may actually wind up just doing 0.8.0 sooner than I had expected. There's a lot of new features queued up in the master branch that I slated for 0.8.0 that I'm using on a daily basis and is production stable.

I wanted to implement some slick inotify() based features for the main window during 0.8.0, but I haven't had time to work on them. It would really improve performance of git-gui on Windows NT, and I do have a lot of git-gui users there.

-- 
Shawn.