Re: Can I have this, pretty please?

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Aug 12, 2007, 21:51 UTC
Message-ID: <85tzr45smb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <20070812200258.GA13298@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 09:10:24PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> I'll probably be able to create a Gnus _backend_ for this sort of
>> setup (there are even backends for directory browsing: most files
>
> You can somewhat prototype this by just dumping the commits to an mbox
> (sorry for the long lines):
>
> git-log \
>   --pretty=format:'From %H Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001%nFrom: %an <%ae>%nDate: %ad%nSubject: %s%nMessage-ID: <%H@none>%nReferences: %P%n%n%b' \
>   | perl -pe 's/References: (.*)/"References: " .  %join(" ", map { "<" . $_ . "\@none>" } split \/ \/, $1)/e' \
>   >mbox

One percent too many before join, and the order of the articles is reversed (--reverse helps here).

It is also a good idea to set gnus-thread-indent to 0 or 1, and gnus-use-trees seems interesting, though not in a reasonably good state (the graph layout tries to avoid crossing links and node names, and that's rather useless).

So actually Gnus would need some kicking into shape before it actually would present a useful tool. On the positive side, it takes about 15 seconds sucking up and toposorting the complete group of about 11000 commits from an mbox file (which one would not ever do anyway). And that is Elisp. However, the git history is still rather harmless considering the commit amounts.

> Also, have you tried looking at tig (make sure to try a recent
> version and use the 'g' command to turn on the graph display)?

There are too many tools around. Sigh. Another to try. Thanks for the tip.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum