From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:31:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [feature request] gitweb: tags in history
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=JHzQm4hm-nuTyZq2CL_2z785KtMvVcmaqtgyF@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100821111555.11879d02@hyperion.delvare>

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:15, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:22:05 -0700 (PDT), Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> writes:
>>
>> > I have a feature request for gitweb. In the history view, I would like
>> > to be (optionally) able to see the tags, interlaced with the actual
>> > commits. The idea is to get an immediate view of all commits that
>> > happened between specific tags.
>> >
....
>
> But shortlog is a repository-wide view, while I need the same for
> history which is a file-specific view.

<shameless plug>
With cgit, you can answer such questions by combining path limiting
and range queries, e.g.
http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/log/scan-tree.c?qt=range&q=v0.8.2..v0.8.3
shows all commits affecting scan-tree.c between v0.8.2 and v0.8.3.
Maybe gitweb could implement something similar?
</shameless plug>

-- 
larsh