Re: [announce] text-based tree visualizer

From: Jonas Fonseca <jonas.fonseca@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 6, 2008, 20:46 UTC
Message-ID: <2c6b72b30803061246j52c005f8nb76df3742776d0fd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803061938550.7660@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> wrote:

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>  On Mar 6 2008 19:24, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>  >On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>  >
>  >> I spent the last two days writing a text-based tree visualizer; gitk is
>  >> really convenient, but unfortunately it needs an X display, tigs tree
>  >> view left me unimpressed, and I actually wanted a tool that does not
>  >> read all commits in like gitk/tig do, but just gives me the treeview.
>  >>
>  >> Screenshot:
>  >> http://jengelh.hopto.org/other/git-forest.png
>  >> Program (perl):
>  >> http://dev.computergmbh.de/gitweb.cgi?p=hxtools;a=blob_plain;f=bin/git-forest
>  >> Top of file contains option overview.

It looks very interesting and inspiring.

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>  Yes, see above? :-) "tig's treeview" - that meant the 'g' key.
>
>  It just uses boring ascii, fails to display octopus merges and
>  'octoups branching', is limited to 'one branch' (e.g. no apparent way
>  to pass --all to git-log/git-rev-list).

I agree to tig's revision graph renderer being boring and very limited. As for passing --all you need to first pass --:

  $ tig -- --all --not pu

I am planning to change this awkwardness after next release.

-- 
Jonas Fonseca