Re: New Git Visualiser Tool - GitVine

From: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>
Date: Dec 19, 2019, 19:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20191219195303.ckeuucm5c7n56eew@yadavpratyush.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAMNO-Ba0-Me67qEEfHoJyBoWg0X_x7=qmmZ1D8ZK9S_0Tk=J5Q@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On 19/12/19 10:53AM, Insane Sharpness wrote:

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> Hey All,
> 
> I made an application recently to better visualise git commits on a
> per file basis.
> And added this to the git kernel wiki here
> https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Interfaces,_frontends,_and_tools#GitVine
> 
> Does not try to compete with more feature rich & powerful clients like
> Gitk, Kraken etc..
> Just tries to be simpler.
> 
> Free Standalone & runs on Windows, Linux & macOS
> Just needs git in your path. (Developed using Python, Qt & packaged
> with PyInstaller)
> Project Page Here: https://insanesharpness.gitlab.io/GitVine/
> 
> Its still a rough cut and loads of room to improve + add more features.
> Please try, would love to hear what you all think.

I have only used it for a few minutes, but one thing I immediately noticed is that the startup time is _really_ slow. On the git-gui repo [0] with only about 1200 commits, it takes around 10-15 seconds to load. On the git.git repo [1] with around 57,000 commits, it takes nearly two minutes to load. In comparison, gitk it almost instant. These two repos are relatively small in size, and examples of bigger ones would be Linux, Chromium, etc where I expect startup times to be even slower.

I'm running it on Linux on Git v2.24.1. Speeding up the startup time would be really nice.

The log for git-gui is missing some merge commits like d32e065 and 2763530 but then it shows some other merges like 69fdb92. I'm not sure why this inconsistency happens. This also leads to the tool showing 39acfa3 as the HEAD (as of writing this it is also the 'master') when in reality the HEAD is at d32e065.

Also, when I double click a commit in the list at the right side, a popup opens with the commit information like hash, author, commit message, etc. But, I notice that the "Signed-off-by" trailers are missing the email addresses. The popup when hovering over a node in the graph shows them correctly though. So, for example the trailers of 39acfa3 are:

    Signed-off-by: Kazuhiro Kato <kato-k@ksysllc.co.jp>
    Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>

But they show up as:

    Signed-off-by: Kazuhiro Kato 
    Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav

All this said, I like the simple and clean UI. Looking forward to how the tool grows :)

[0] https://github.com/prati0100/git-gui [1] https://github.com/git/git

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav