From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 05:09:05 GMT
Subject: Re: gitweb wishlist
Message-ID: <7voeazopse.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505242153150.2307@ppc970.osdl.org>

>>>>> "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>'".