# [announce] text-based tree visualizer 15 messages from 2008-03-06 to 2008-03-18. Participants: Jan Engelhardt, Johannes Schindelin, David Brown, Jonas Fonseca, Miklos Vajna, Jakub Narebski, Ping Yin. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12545 ## Jan Engelhardt, 2008-03-06 17:48 Subject: [announce] text-based tree visualizer Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.64.0803061557320.7660%40fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr ``` Hello everyone, 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. Feedback is welcome. thanks, Jan ``` ## Johannes Schindelin, 2008-03-06 18:24 Subject: Re: [announce] text-based tree visualizer Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LSU.1.00.0803061924350.3941%40racer.site In-Reply-To: ``` Hi, 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'...)? Ciao, Dscho ``` ## Jan Engelhardt, 2008-03-06 18:49 Subject: Re: [announce] text-based tree visualizer Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.64.0803061938550.7660%40fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr In-Reply-To: ``` 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. 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). ``` ## Johannes Schindelin, 2008-03-06 19:46 Subject: Re: [announce] text-based tree visualizer Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LSU.1.00.0803062045371.3941%40racer.site In-Reply-To: ``` Hi, On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > 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 ``` ## David Brown, 2008-03-06 20:14 Subject: Re: [announce] text-based tree visualizer Message-ID: <20080306201429.GA24528@old.davidb.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080306201429.GA24528%40old.davidb.org In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 06:48:19PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >Program (perl): >http://dev.computergmbh.de/gitweb.cgi?p=hxtools;a=blob_plain;f=bin/git-forest >Top of file contains option overview. Do you have a git URL instead of just a link to a single version of a single file? I haven't been able to figure one out. Thanks, David ``` ## Jan Engelhardt, 2008-03-06 20:38 Subject: Re: [announce] text-based tree visualizer Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.64.0803062137020.7660%40fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr In-Reply-To: <20080306201429.GA24528@old.davidb.org> ``` On Mar 6 2008 12:14, David Brown wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 06:48:19PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> Program (perl): >> http://dev.computergmbh.de/gitweb.cgi?p=hxtools;a=blob_plain;f=bin/git-forest >> Top of file contains option overview. > > Do you have a git URL instead of just a link to a single version of a > single file? I haven't been able to figure one out. No problem; git://dev.computergmbh.de/hxtools . Any idea how I can make gitweb display an URL text like it does on http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=summary ? ``` ## Jonas Fonseca, 2008-03-06 20:46 Subject: Re: [announce] text-based tree visualizer Message-ID: <2c6b72b30803061246j52c005f8nb76df3742776d0fd@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/2c6b72b30803061246j52c005f8nb76df3742776d0fd%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > 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. It looks very interesting and inspiring. > Yes, see above? :-) "tig's treeview" - that meant the 'g' key. > > 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). I agree to tig's revision graph renderer being boring and very limited. As for passing --all you need to first pass --: $ tig -- --all --not pu I am planning to change this awkwardness after next release. -- Jonas Fonseca ``` ## Miklos Vajna, 2008-03-07 00:46 Subject: Re: [announce] text-based tree visualizer Message-ID: <20080307004654.GK27511@genesis.frugalware.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080307004654.GK27511%40genesis.frugalware.org In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:38:11PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Any idea how I can make gitweb display an URL text like it does on > http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=summary ? use the cloneurl file (just like description) for example. ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2008-03-07 13:45 Subject: Re: [announce] text-based tree visualizer Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m3ablahcl4.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: ``` Jan Engelhardt writes: > On Mar 6 2008 12:14, David Brown wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 06:48:19PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >>> Program (perl): >>> http://dev.computergmbh.de/gitweb.cgi?p=hxtools;a=blob_plain;f=bin/git-forest >>> Top of file contains option overview. >> >> Do you have a git URL instead of just a link to a single version of a >> single file? I haven't been able to figure one out. > > No problem; git://dev.computergmbh.de/hxtools . > > Any idea how I can make gitweb display an URL text like it does on > http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=summary ? Please read gitweb/README and gitweb/INSTALL. >From gitweb/README: * GITWEB_BASE_URL Git base URLs used for URL to where fetch project from, i.e. full URL is "$git_base_url/$project". Shown on projects summary page. Repository URL for project can be also configured per repository; this takes precendence over URL composed from base URL and project name. Note that you can setup multiple base URLs (for example one for git:// protocol access, one for http:// access) from gitweb config file. [No default] [...] * @git_base_url_list List of git base URLs used for URL to where fetch project from, shown in project summary page. Full URL is "$git_base_url/$project". You can setup multiple base URLs (for example one for git:// protocol access, and one for http:// "dumb" protocol access). Note that per repository configuration in 'cloneurl' file, or as values of gitweb.url project config. [...] * cloneurl (or multiple-valued gitweb.url) File with repository URL (used for clone and fetch), one per line. Displayed in the project summary page. You can use multiple-valued gitweb.url repository configuration variable for that, but the file takes precendence. P.S. Will you add short info about your tool to the GitWiki page http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools (somewhere along gitk and tig, in "History Viewers..." section)? -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git ``` ## Jan Engelhardt, 2008-03-08 15:01 Subject: Re: [announce] text-based tree visualizer Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.64.0803081555080.26142%40fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr In-Reply-To: ``` On Mar 7 2008 05:45, Jakub Narebski wrote: > >P.S. Will you add short info about your tool to the GitWiki page > http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools > (somewhere along gitk and tig, in "History Viewers..." section)? Someone else already did by now (that was you, was not it :-) — would it be possible to just merge the tiny tool into contrib/ so the file does not stand alone? thanks, Jan ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2008-03-09 12:36 Subject: Re: [announce] text-based tree visualizer Message-ID: <200803091336.21931.jnareb@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200803091336.21931.jnareb%40gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > would it be possible to just merge the tiny tool into contrib/ > so the file does not stand alone? I think it would be posible. Simply send a patch adding it somewhere in the contrib/ directory. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ``` ## Ping Yin, 2008-03-17 13:40 Subject: Re: [announce] text-based tree visualizer Message-ID: <46dff0320803170640g52411015g7bbe315df2b0bb56@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/46dff0320803170640g52411015g7bbe315df2b0bb56%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:48 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Hello everyone, > > > 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. > Here is my view ║ ║ ║ ╟ Merge branch 'jk/portable' ║ ║ ║ ╠═╗ ║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ Merge branch 'py/submodule' ║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╗ ║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ Merge branch 'db/diff-to-fp' ║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╗ ║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ Merge branch 'cc/help' ║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╬═╗ ║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ ║ shortlog: do not require to ║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ ║ Merge branch 'maint' ║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╬═╬═╗ It seems messed up. -- Ping Yin ``` ## Jan Engelhardt, 2008-03-17 16:27 Subject: Re: text-based tree visualizer Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.64.0803171716470.18817%40fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr In-Reply-To: <46dff0320803170640g52411015g7bbe315df2b0bb56@mail.gmail.com> ``` On Mar 17 2008 21:40, Ping Yin 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. >> >Here is my view >║ ║ ║ ╟ Merge branch 'jk/portable' >║ ║ ║ ╠═╗ >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ Merge branch 'py/submodule' >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╗ >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ Merge branch 'db/diff-to-fp' >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╗ >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ Merge branch 'cc/help' >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╬═╗ >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ ║ shortlog: do not require to >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ ║ Merge branch 'maint' >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╬═╬═╗ > >It seems messed up. It looks pretty normal. Once a vine-branch (║) branches off [a merge is done in history], it stays in its column for the entire time. It is different from gitk which moves branches to the left/right so that there are less crossovers (╬) in gitk. But in git-forest that is intentional. Also note that ╬ is not a "go-everywhere" intersection -- see the top of the git-forest script and/or try --style=3 or =0 option to make it apparent: │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Merge branch 'jk/portable' │ ╞═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╕ │ │ │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Merge branch 'py/submodule' │ ╞═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╕ │ │ │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Merge branch 'db/diff-to-fp' │ ╞═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╕ │ │ │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Merge branch 'cc/help' │ ╞═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╕ │ │ │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ shortlog: do not require to run from inside a git re Or was it something else you meant to describe with being messed up? ``` ## Ping Yin, 2008-03-18 00:26 Subject: Re: text-based tree visualizer Message-ID: <46dff0320803171726o4d7c23b4jbaae3cb0b3e09723@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/46dff0320803171726o4d7c23b4jbaae3cb0b3e09723%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Mar 17 2008 21:40, Ping Yin 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. > >> > >Here is my view > >║ ║ ║ ╟ Merge branch 'jk/portable' > >║ ║ ║ ╠═╗ > >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ Merge branch 'py/submodule' > >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╗ > >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ Merge branch 'db/diff-to-fp' > >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╗ > >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ Merge branch 'cc/help' > >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╬═╗ > >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ ║ shortlog: do not require to > >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ ║ Merge branch 'maint' > >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╬═╬═╗ > > > >It seems messed up. > > It looks pretty normal. Once a vine-branch (║) branches off [a merge is > done in history], it stays in its column for the entire time. It is > different from gitk which moves branches to the left/right so that > there are less crossovers (╬) in gitk. But in git-forest that is > intentional. > Also note that ╬ is not a "go-everywhere" intersection -- > see the top of the git-forest script and/or try --style=3 or =0 > option to make it apparent: > > │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Merge branch 'jk/portable' > > │ ╞═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╕ │ │ > │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Merge branch 'py/submodule' > │ ╞═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╕ │ │ > │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Merge branch 'db/diff-to-fp' > │ ╞═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╕ │ │ > │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Merge branch 'cc/help' > │ ╞═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╕ │ │ > │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ shortlog: do not require to run from inside a git re > > Or was it something else you meant to describe with being messed up? > Thanks. That's it. I thought the normal looking would be ║ ║ ║ ╟ Merge branch 'jk/portable' ║ ║ ║ ╠═╗ ║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ Merge branch 'py/submodule' ║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╗ ║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ Merge branch 'db/diff-to-fp' ║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╗ ║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ Merge branch 'cc/help' ║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╬═╗ ║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ ║ shortlog: do not require to ║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ ║ Merge branch 'maint' ║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╬═╬═╗ -- Ping Yin ``` ## Jan Engelhardt, 2008-03-18 02:08 Subject: Re: text-based tree visualizer Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.64.0803180300300.18817%40fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr In-Reply-To: <46dff0320803171726o4d7c23b4jbaae3cb0b3e09723@mail.gmail.com> ``` On Mar 18 2008 08:26, Ping Yin wrote: >> >Here is my view >> >║ ║ ║ ╟ Merge branch 'jk/portable' >> >║ ║ ║ ╠═╗ >> >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ Merge branch 'py/submodule' >> >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╗ >> >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ Merge branch 'db/diff-to-fp' >> >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╗ >> >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ Merge branch 'cc/help' >> >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╬═╗ >> >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ ║ shortlog: do not require to >> >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ ║ Merge branch 'maint' >> >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╬═╬═╗ >> > >> >It seems messed up. >> >> │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Merge branch 'jk/portable' >> >> │ ╞═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╕ │ │ >> │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Merge branch 'py/submodule' >> │ ╞═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╕ │ │ >> │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Merge branch 'db/diff-to-fp' >> │ ╞═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╕ │ │ >> │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Merge branch 'cc/help' >> │ ╞═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╕ │ │ >> │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ shortlog: do not require to run from inside a git re >> >> Or was it something else you meant to describe with being messed up? >> >Thanks. That's it. I thought the normal looking would be > >║ ║ ║ ╟ Merge branch 'jk/portable' >║ ║ ║ ╠═╗ >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ Merge branch 'py/submodule' >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╗ >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ Merge branch 'db/diff-to-fp' >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╗ >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ Merge branch 'cc/help' >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╬═╗ >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ ║ shortlog: do not require to >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ ║ Merge branch 'maint' >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╬═╬═╗ git-forest relies on having a font with fixed-size cells. xterm works (uses bitmap fonts, so no problem) works, as does sakura (uses ttf, but fixed cells). ```