Re: [PATCH v2] gitk: Add a horizontal scrollbar for commit history

From: Marc Branchaud <mbranchaud@xiplink.com>
Date: Nov 4, 2013, 15:50 UTC
Message-ID: <5277C22C.8050605@xiplink.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131031090526.GA9164@iris.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On 13-10-31 05:05 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:

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> 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?

I like this a lot! Thanks for putting it together. I think it's worth releasing this as-is.

My only wish is that it be generalized for any kind of ref: Each refs/* namespace should form a distinct display category. For example, given refs like this (note the non-standard "builds" namespace):

	refs/heads/maint
	refs/heads/master
	refs/heads/next
	refs/remotes/origin/maint
	refs/remotes/origin/master
	refs/remotes/origin/next
	refs/remotes/origin/pu
	refs/tags/v1.1.1
	refs/tags/v2.2.2
	refs/tags/v3.3.3
	refs/tags/v4.4.4
	refs/builds/1.1.1-1
	refs/builds/1.1.1-2
	refs/builds/1.1.1-3
	refs/builds/1.1.1-4
	refs/builds/1.1.1-5

And let's say that somehow all these refs refer to the same commit that's being displayed in gitk, then I'd like to see something like:

	[3 branches...][4 remote refs...][4 tags...][5 builds...]

Gitk can be smart about how it displays standard namespaces (as it already is for tags, heads, remote heads, etc.), but for non-standard namespaces gitk can just display the namespace's name directly.

M.