Re: More precise tag following

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jan 27, 2007, 22:39 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701271432450.25027@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070127201640.GA25637@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> 
> And here's a (very hackish) incremental viewer using perl/gtk (you will
> need the Gtk2 perl module installed). It doesn't take any options, and it
> just shows the blame output (no lookup of committer/date).

Heh. Ok, this is absolutely the ugliest thing I have ever seen, but after doing a simple "yum install perl-Gtk2" it clearly does work ;)

(For some reason I have never fathomed, gtk apps seem to always like adding about a mile of empty space around lines. I want my text nice and tight - gtk menus and text always look like it's 1½ line spacing to me. Which may be ok when you're writing a paper and want space to add your scribbles and underlining etc, but not when you're looking at the screen, and it just means that there's *less* space for commentary).

> It needs much work (and cleanup) to be useful, but I think it proves
> your point: in the time it takes me to actually start looking through
> the output, the blame has finished without me noticing!

Yeah. It needs the logic to coalesce consecutive file-name/line-nr entries, but even after you add a "-C" to the arguments (which really makes 'git-blame' quite a bit more expensive), it doesn't feel "slow".

Just ugly ;)

		Linus "shouldn't throw stones when anything
			I would have done would have been
			uglier still" Torvalds