From: John Ellson <ellson@research.att.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 01:23:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Wanted - a file browser interface to git
Message-ID: <4355A00B.4000806@research.att.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510181806250.3369@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, John Ellson wrote:
>   
>> An example is:  "I know that file xxx contained algorithm yyy at some point in
>> the past and now I'd like to browse back through the history of xxx to find
>> the exact details."
>>     
>
> You are aware of "git whatchanged -p xxx", right?
>
> Yeah, it's not graphical, and I agree that it might be very cool to have a 
> graphical version of it. But I thought I'd mention it even so. A 
> surprising number of people seem to have never realized, and at least for 
> me personally, it's one of the most common things I do.
>
> 		Linus
>   
Linus,

I wasn't aware of it, no.  Looks very useful.  Thanks.

I see that you can take the tree id from the diff-tree lines and
then produce the state of the file at that time with "cg-admin-cat -r 
<id> xxx"
Is that how you would do it?

Are there any plans for cogito to support it?

John