Re: Thoughts on gitk's memory footprint over linux-2.6.git

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 11, 2011, 12:44 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s1cZc5OZ0L0zG-Wu+QVpu7xv4-JtWTBtPvnjO7sUFeM9w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:

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> However, I find it extremely annoying over the kernel tree, due to its
> memory footprint. It is not the only thing I am running, (Chrome
> Browser, Gnome3, Firefox, many gnome Terminal windows, emacs), and
> given that I am looking at "just a couple of commits" I don't feel
> opening a few gitk instances should be problematic... except that it
> is.

Sometimes I do this:
 % gitk master..branch_1 master..branch_2 ...

But as I visualize more branches, it becomes tedious.

It would be nice to have --base option, and show only the commits <base>..<branch>.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras