From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Roskin Subject: Ideas for qgit Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:08:31 -0400 Message-ID: <1151035711.25640.6.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 23 06:08:53 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FtcyD-0005nF-Fa for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:08:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932160AbWFWEIe (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:08:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751240AbWFWEIe (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:08:34 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]:10176 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751239AbWFWEIe (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:08:34 -0400 Received: from proski by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Ftcy9-0005Qz-9w for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:08:33 -0400 Received: from proski by dv.roinet.com with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Ftcy8-0006gt-1n; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:08:32 -0400 To: git , Marco Costalba X-Mailer: Evolution 2.7.2.1 (2.7.2.1-4) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, Marco! As promised, here's what I would like to see in qgit: 1) Bookmarks or quick tags (qtags). It may be useful to mark some commits to make it easier to navigate qgit. Yet I don't want them to mix with real tags. Perhaps qgit could save them separately, e.g. in .git/refs/qtags to facilitate navigation. qtags should appear separately in the popup menu. 2) The "Patch" tab should be redesigned so that the diff can be shown against the parent or against head/tag/qtag. Users are not supposed to enter SHA1. If they have to, then it only confirms that qgit needs qtags. 3) It would be nice to have some minimal navigating capabilities on the Patch tab. At least it should be possible to go up and down the revision list and go to any head/tag/qtag/stgit patch. It would eliminate the need to switch to the "Rev list" too often. 4) Some bisect support would be nice, at least as good as in gitk. Actually, I'm not using bisect too much, but it's probably because I'm not debugging Wine these days. Everything else is intelligible :-) 5) Branch view based on reflog. Probably there should be an interface allowing to limit the displayed revisions to one branch. I think qgit should still load all revisions that it loads now, but if users start complaining about performance too much, maybe qgit should have an option to load only the logged branch. The problem is that some parents will be unavailable in the view. 6) Try to unload some stuff from the popup menus to the main menu. It will be too log if we use it for tags, qtags, branch heads and branch logs. 7) qgit command line should be documented. "qgit --help" should display help on stdout. That said, qgit is in a pretty decent shape right now (except the "macro" interface, but I'm sure it will be improved before the next release). I actually used qgit as an important argument for one project to go with git rather than with Subversion of Mercurial. qgit for Mercurial would be cool, but I'd leave it to Mercurial fans. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin