From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: More gitweb queries.. Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 08:43:48 +1000 Message-ID: <1117320229.5228.18.camel@gaston> References: <20050527235924.GB19491@vrfy.org> <20050528084255.GA32614@vrfy.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Daniel Serpell , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun May 29 00:47:10 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DcA4k-0000MV-If for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 29 May 2005 00:46:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261183AbVE1Wsy (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 May 2005 18:48:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261188AbVE1Wsy (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 May 2005 18:48:54 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:21401 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261183AbVE1Wsw (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 May 2005 18:48:52 -0400 Received: from gaston (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.crashing.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j4SMf9Zn000927; Sat, 28 May 2005 17:41:10 -0500 To: Kay Sievers In-Reply-To: <20050528084255.GA32614@vrfy.org> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 10:42 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > You know how that stuff works? :) It is a very nice idea for > small stuff, but it uses a
for every pixel/line you draw and > places this in the background and I expect it to kill your browser if > you try to draw things like gitk does. > > > Alternatively, you could use a fixed set of little images, a bar "|", a > > dot "o" and branches like "Y", "7" and "\". Obviously, octopus-merges > > are very difficult to draw using only those. > > Did you look at gitk? With a all the crossing and long lines, you definitely > need to draw the lines with colors. Otherwise you will see _nothing_, but > random characters. :) > > > BTW, I tried searching on gitweb, and I think that found a problem, see: > > http://ehlo.org/~kay/gitweb.cgi?p=git/git.git;a=search;s=check > > At the bottom of the page, highlighting of the search term stops and the > > commits are all the same color. > > Well, you see a list of files which contain the text, not the text > itself. I can print the filename in red. :) Best may be to have the server generate a picture ... ? Ben.