From: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 09:40:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gitk: Add a horizontal scrollbar for commit history
Message-ID: <5274C89D.10103@hvoigt.net>
In-Reply-To: <20131031090526.GA9164@iris.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Hi,

Am 31.10.2013 10:05, schrieb Paul Mackerras:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 01:47:08PM +0100, Nicolas Cornu wrote:
>> This is useful on all our repos, every times, as we put a tag per day.
>> If the HEAD didn't move during 150 days, we got 150 tags.
>
> Here is a patch that I did some time ago but have never pushed out.
> Do you think it is an improvement when using gitk on a repo with lots
> of tags?
>
> Paul.
>
> [PATCH] gitk: Tag display improvements
>
> When a commit has many tags, the tag icons in the graph display can
> easily become so wide as to push the commit message off the right-hand
> edge of the graph display pane.  This changes the display so that if
> there are more than 3 tags or they would take up more than a quarter
> of the width of the pane, we instead display a single tag icon with
> a legend inside it like "4 tags...".  If the user clicks on the tag
> icon, gitk then displays all the tags in the diff display pane.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

Yes please. I have not tried it but the description sounds great. Will 
try to give it a testdrive next week.

Cheers Heiko