Re: gitk highlight feature

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 2, 2006, 23:48 UTC
Message-ID: <7vejzcj8da.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <17495.61142.677439.171773@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> writes:

> I just pushed out some changes to gitk which allow you to use one view
> to highlight another (see the "Highlight" submenu under the "View"
> menu), and which allow you to specify arbitrary git-rev-list arguments
> for a view.  The arguments string uses shell quoting conventions.

Eh, the string entered by me is quoted by the program, or do I have to quote it myself? I suspect it should not be so bad to code, even if you have to do it with tcl ;-).

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> I had been thinking of having fields in the view editor dialog where
> you could put in refs that you did and didn't want included, date
> specifiers, etc., all in separate fields with suitable labels.  Now
> I'm thinking that it's probably just as convenient to put
> "ORIG_HEAD.." into the git-rev-list arguments field as it is to put
> "ORIG_HEAD" in the "Don't include commits reachable from this" field.
> There may be an argument for having fields for "Exclude commits before
> this date" and "Exclude commits after this date", because those things
> often have spaces in them (e.g. "2 weeks ago") which would have to be
> quoted in the git-rev-list arguments field.
>
> Thoughts?

Calendar widgets. BTW, "rev-list --since=2.days.ago" would work rather well ;-).