Re: [announce] text-based tree visualizer

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 6, 2008, 19:46 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803062045371.3941@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803061938550.7660@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

Hi,

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

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> On Mar 6 2008 19:24, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> >> I spent the last two days writing a text-based tree visualizer; gitk 
> >> is really convenient, but unfortunately it needs an X display, tigs 
> >> tree view left me unimpressed, and I actually wanted a tool that does 
> >> not read all commits in like gitk/tig do, but just gives me the 
> >> treeview.
> >> 
> >> Screenshot:
> >> http://jengelh.hopto.org/other/git-forest.png
> >> Program (perl):
> >> http://dev.computergmbh.de/gitweb.cgi?p=hxtools;a=blob_plain;f=bin/git-forest
> >> Top of file contains option overview.
> >
> >Nice.  Have you tested how it compares against tig (hit 'g'...)?
> 
> Yes, see above? :-) "tig's treeview" - that meant the 'g' key.

Yes, I saw that, thank you.

> It just uses boring ascii, fails to display octopus merges and 'octoups 
> branching', is limited to 'one branch' (e.g. no apparent way to pass 
> --all to git-log/git-rev-list).

That was what I was interested in.

Thank you, Dscho