Re: gitk with hyperspace support

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Aug 17, 2005, 06:58 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr7ct124c.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <17154.33520.584666.701545@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> writes:

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> My reasoning is that it is the local short-range connections which are
> interesting and informative.  The long-range connections aren't really
> visually informative; if you want to know about the long-range
> connections, the parent and child lists in the details pane are much
> more useful.

Correct.

The new output looks a lot less cluttering and I like it very much, but it is confusing to me on one count. I clicked one arrowhead pointing downward, expecting that the pane would jump scroll to show the counterpart arrowhead, and was dissapointed that it did not happen. I could click the "Parent" link at that point, but then the upward arrow was above and outside the visible portion of that pane, which broke visual continuity and I lost track at that point. I think my being color challenged exacerbated the resulting confusion; otherwise I could have probably found the line with the same color as the color of the downarrow I clicked.

> http://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk/gitk.hs

I first thought you rewrote it in Haskell ;-).