From: "Tjernlund" <tjernlund@tjernlund.se>
To: "'Jakub Narebski'" <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: gitweb: please show tags file history browsing
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:12:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001201cb5295$5c055850$141008f0$@se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009121719.32390.jnareb@gmail.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Tjernlund wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Jakub Narebski [mailto:jnareb@gmail.com]
> >> On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Tjernlund wrote:
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: Jakub Narebski [mailto:jnareb@gmail.com]
> >>>>
> >>>> "Tjernlund" <tjernlund@tjernlund.se> writes:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I would really like to see where the tags are when browsing
> >>>>> file or directory history in gitweb. Would that be possible?
> >>
> >>>> While it probably be possible to show tags in 'history' view, it would
> >>>> be not easy. The problem is that 'history' view shows only commits
> >>>> that touch specified file or directory, and tagged commits usually do
> >>>> not touch those files (at least if one is using "bump version number"
> >>>> commits to tag them).
> >>>>
> >>>> So you would have:
> >>>> 1. Design where to show those tags - they would be between shown
> >>>> commits.
> >>>> 2. Create code which shows some/all tags that are between commits in
> >>>> the presence of nonlinear history, without affecting performance
> >>>> too badly.
> >>>
> >>> Ah, that is too bad because I think it would really useful.
> >>> Image browsing a drivers history in the linux kernel. Then it would be
> >>> really nice to see what changes/bug fixes went into what release.
> >>
> >> First, you can help with the first issue even if you can't help with
> >> the coding itself.
> >
> > I like the gitk way of showing tags, won't that work in gitweb too?
>
> Err... "gitk" shows tags, but so does 'shortlog' and 'log' view in
> gitweb. The 'history' view in gitweb doesn't show intermediate tags,
> but neither does "gitk -- <path>".
I know, I just meant the yellow note with tag name in it, how tags
are displayed. When they are display is another matter :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-12 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-11 14:37 gitweb: please show tags file history browsing Tjernlund
2010-09-11 17:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-09-12 9:27 ` Tjernlund
2010-09-12 10:19 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-09-12 13:11 ` Tjernlund
2010-09-12 15:19 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-09-12 16:12 ` Tjernlund [this message]
2010-09-12 18:20 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-09-13 5:42 ` Tjernlund
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