Re: New features in gitk

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 2, 2007, 18:17 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711021814270.4362@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0711020828440.3342@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Marco Costalba wrote:
> > 
> > I have tried to overcome --topo-order in qgit but I found it very 
> > difficult, too much for me.
> > 
> > Lazily drawing the layout it doesn't mean that you lazy load the data 
> > from git, indeed you load all the git-log output as soon as it 
> > arrives.
> 
> Would it be more palatable if I tried to write some 
> visualization-specific front-end that acted kind of like "git rev-list", 
> but would have some way of "resetting" its output?

Heh, Shawn and I were discussing this when we met in San Jose earlier this month. The application we had in mind was a common backend for graphical representation of the commit graph, which could be used by git gui to show (part of) the history. The ultimate goal was a graphical rebase -i.

I would have _loved_ to implement this. Alas, as it appears my choice of job was less than brilliant, and even when I have some spare moments at the end of the day, I watch movies to forget the day, instead of implementing this fascinating and useful feature.

Ciao, Dscho