Re: gitweb wishlist
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
- Date
- May 25, 2005, 05:09 UTC
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>>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
LT> The only sane interface I can think of is to expose the subdirectory LT> history and then pick from that. Otherwise you'd have to actually type in LT> the name, which is a bit against the notion of a graphical browsing LT> interface.
Knowing to type "merge-tree.c" you need to be an old timer ;-).
Since I asked that question I found out that each commit has a link to the diff and the tree, so if I know when merge-tree.c disappeared, I can go backwards from there.
I think what is useful, from software archaeologist point of view, would be to give a way to the web users to use pickaxe. Type piece of code in the textbox and have the CGI run "rev-log | diff-tree -S'<that piece of the code>'".