Re: [RFC] gitweb wishlist and TODO list

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 3, 2006, 12:38 UTC
Message-ID: <edeicq$ae0$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550609030518o5e78bb05w4df4235a4931c2dd@mail.gmail.com>

Marco Costalba wrote:

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>> By the way, do you known any common Perl modules for generating PNG
>> (graphs)?
>>
> 
> No, I don't. sorry. Anyway, from my experience with qgit I can say
> that one thing is to produce a revision graph, another thing is to
> produce a _fast_ and (perhaps more important) no memory hogger
> revision graph.
> 
> Both qgit and gitk implement heavy optimizations and a lot of tricks
> to make that happen. IMHO this is almost mandatory with long and
> complex histories like Linux tree. I'm not sure a generic graph
> builder is up to the task.
> 
> More, gitweb is designed to be used by many people at the same time,
> while qgit and gitk are for personal use only, and this adds burden
> from the performance/resources  point of view.

Well, I guess even if/when gitweb acquires history graph support, it would be paged like history/shortlog is, i.e. at most 100 commits to graph.

P.S. To those wondering why thread got broken, and why the parent post is lost: vger bogofilter.

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Jakub Narebski
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