Can I have this, pretty please?

Hi,

I have more or less brought my system to a stillstand by trying to visualize branches and histories: the graphical tools really suck resources.

So I have been thinking how I could use Emacs, and how to cache what efficiently, and put out information just on-demand and so on.

And then it struck me: Emacs has a very efficient browser for linked one-line information that can be expanded into complete changesets with diffs inside. It is called "Gnus". A newsreader.

Mapping a repository into newsgroups (one per branch head?), complete with threads, references, header display, article fetch (by git-format-patch), Message Ids (=commit id) is much more straightforward than creating an HTML server. And it means that everybody can use his favorite newsreader for navigating a repository.

Even when we are talking about readonly access, this would be simply great and at once make for a whole bunch of existing tools that would provide much better options in many respects than existing git-specific repository browsers for going through commit histories.

And the possibilities for write access are at least intriguing.

So a lightweight nntp server serving git commits as articles would be really cool.