Re: More precise tag following

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 27, 2007, 22:00 UTC
Message-ID: <7vzm84gmei.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701270945260.25027@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> This should be an example of how important interfaces can be to what feels 
> "slow".

I learn new thing (or relearn things I knew but did not apply in my argument myself) every day from you, and this is a prime example ;-). I agree that latency in giving feedback helps the feel of speed, and the feel is the most important thing in UI.

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> Btw, Junio - even if nobody writes a graphical front-end for that 
> "--incremental" flag, this should be in 1.5.0. If only so that people 
> could write those front-ends and not have to patch git to get the blame 
> information out of it.
>
> The exact format for the output of this thing is obviously very debatable: 
> it might well be worthwhile to use a more verbose thing that also gives 
> the commit name and date etc information (since git-blame knows it), so 
> that any graphical front-end doesn't need to look up every commit as it 
> comes out of the incremntal blame engine. I just wrote it as a quick 
> "proof of concept" thing, and the output is obviously pretty minimalistic 
> right now.

I would think we probably should reuse the --porcelain output, perhaps enhancing it even more.