From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 01:07:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Wanted - a file browser interface to git
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510181806250.3369@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <dj45np$e88$1@sea.gmane.org>



On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, John Ellson wrote:
> 
> An example is:  "I know that file xxx contained algorithm yyy at some point in
> the past and now I'd like to browse back through the history of xxx to find
> the exact details."

You are aware of "git whatchanged -p xxx", right?

Yeah, it's not graphical, and I agree that it might be very cool to have a 
graphical version of it. But I thought I'd mention it even so. A 
surprising number of people seem to have never realized, and at least for 
me personally, it's one of the most common things I do.

		Linus