From: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:48:38 GMT
Subject: Re: GSoC draft proposal: Line-level history browser
Message-ID: <41f08ee11003212048q1950eb3s95f1caf7ba640874@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BA61CF9.7040104@gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:19 PM, A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bo Yang wrote:
> [...]
>>
>> For multiple ranges stuff, I don't think it is very useful to support
>> it for a history browser. Anyway, our users can only focus on one line
>> of thread history. I am very willing to listen what is your use case
>> for a multiple ranges?
>
> More than one line range can be related and of interest to a
> forensics/archeology task.
>
> In a simple multi range case, you'd have 2 line ranges in the same file that
> you want to see the history and graph of. Such as 2 related macro
> definitions in a header file.
>
> In a complex multi range case, you'd have many line ranges spread over
> multiple blobs and some of the blobs have disjoint commit graphs.
>
> The complex multi range case may be too much for a GSOC project, and the
> simple multi range case may be also. However, the command syntax should be
> general enough to handle them without being too ugly so that the
> implementation could be improved and expanded later.

Yeah, how do you think use the following syntax:

<file1>@<rev1>:<start pos>,<end pos> <file2>@<rev2>:<start pos>,<end pos>

Thanks!

Regards!
Bo