From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 19:24:20 GMT Subject: More gitweb queries.. Message-ID: Kay, just a few more quickie suggestions if you don't mind.. - looking around, the ALSA guys aren't the only ones that start off with an empty line, so it's probably worth fixing the summary etc to ignore whitespace at the beginning rather than give empty summary reasons. - any reason to limit the "summary" page to just the last 14 changes? The "log" thing you can ask to go back further, it would be nice to have something like a "last 100" thing for summaries too, especially since the summary is so nice and dense, so you can actually get a nice view of what has happened without scrolling _too_ much. - I was in the "commitdiff" thing, and initially thought that there was no way to get back to the "summary" view. It turns out I was wrong (the summary is reachable by just clicking at the project name itself in the top header), but it's a bit strange that the "commitdiff" thing has an explicit link back to itself (hey, consistency is good, so I'm not complaining), but the link back to the summary page is implicit. So how about adding an explicit "summary" link to the list of other explicit links (log, commit, commitdiff and tree) at the top of the page? I actually like browsing other peoples projects with the gitweb interfaces, it's both responsive and verbose enough to really say something good. In contrast, cvsweb is always just a mess of "these are the files, go at it", which is totally pointless and doesn't tell anything about what is actually happening in the project. So dammit, I'm very biased indeed, but I'm just looking at gitweb, and comparing it to both the CVS and SVN web things, and they just reinforce my conviction that CVS is absolute crap, and I find myself surprised by how crap SVN also appears. [ In other words, while I have all these stupid requests for you, I think gitweb is just _way_ better and more useful than something like viewcvs (or cvsweb). So don't mind my small gripes, I only have them because I like this thing. On that small note, I also find "gitk" very cool indeed, too bad about the fact that tk/tcl seems to always end up looking so _ugly_. Is there any way to get anti-aliased fonts and a less 'Motify' blocky look from tcl/tk? Every time I see that, I feel like I'm back in the last century or something. Combining some of the features of the two (that über-cool revision history graph from gitk rules, for example) might be cool. I get the urge to do octopus-merges in the kernel just because of how good they look in gitk ;) ] Linus