Re: [RFC] gitweb wishlist and TODO list
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
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- Sep 3, 2006, 11:24 UTC
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Marco Costalba wrote:
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> On 9/3/06, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote: >> Marco Costalba wrote: >> >>> On 9/2/06, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> By the way, do the diff between arbitrary revisions (say, between two >>>> branches/two refs) and between arbitrary versions of the same file >>>> would be useful to have in gitweb? >>>> >>> >>> A nice tool, lot of ideas to steal ;-) >>> >>>http://www.cenqua.com/fisheye/demo/viewrep/ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/?FETOUR=A1 >> >> FishEye? I haven't took the full tour, but the tool seems somewhat >> CVS centric, i.e. per file history, file description,... >> >> But for example "breadcrumbs" idea for the file path (each segment >> of path being link to given (sub)directory) is a nice one. Although >> if I remember correctly the pathname (for files only) is currently >> hack to have somewhere link to "head" version of current file in >> plain format. > > Also the UI for diff between arbitrary revisions could be interesting.
There is problem with git encouraging multiple branches and nonlinear history. While it would be fairly easy either to add Wiki-like (e.g. http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/ or http://en.wikipedia.org) radio-boxes to mark revisions to compare, or add pull down menu to select revision (useless with longer history) of a given file (we have diff-to-current in file history, by the way), the true power of selecting revisions to compare would be when we would have graphical history visualizer built in, similar to gitk and qgit.
By the way, do you known any common Perl modules for generating PNG (graphs)?
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