Re: Amusement: ASCII Art generator

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 4, 2007, 01:49 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703040245540.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703040240190.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Hi,

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> a few days ago, I posted an ASCII representation of a commit graph. This 
> was really tedious, so I wrote a simple script to generate it (and also to 
> prove that I am not making everything a builtin). It takes revision range 
> arguments, so if you call it with '-25 229ed74' on the git repository, you 
> will get this:
> 
> A---C-----F---------------------Q---------------Y
>    /     /                     /               /
>   B   D-E   G-------K-------O-P---R---T-U-V-W-X
>                            /         ,-----'
>               H-I-J---L-M-N---------S

Sidenote: this script is really dumb, and checks collisions only 
occasionally, but it works sometimes. Obviously, I chose an example where 
it works :-)

Ciao, Dscho