From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Mackerras Subject: Re: Prototype git commit viewer Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 08:12:13 +1000 Message-ID: <17023.57405.35272.46557@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <17022.49021.344841.79940@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20050509071341.GA3599@pasky.ji.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 10 00:06:12 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVGNS-0005au-A2 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 10 May 2005 00:05:26 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261542AbVEIWM2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2005 18:12:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261543AbVEIWM2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2005 18:12:28 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:30426 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261542AbVEIWMQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2005 18:12:16 -0400 Received: by ozlabs.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 123AB679F5; Tue, 10 May 2005 08:12:14 +1000 (EST) To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20050509071341.GA3599@pasky.ji.cz> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Petr Baudis writes: > What are its advantages to git-viz? As a kernel developer, when I do a pull from Linus' tree, the question I want to ask is "who has been making what changes?" That's why gitk shows the headline and author of each of 30 commits in one screenful. AFAICS from the screenshots, git-viz doesn't give me that density of information (and neither did bk revtool, for that matter). It seems to me that git-viz makes the graph topology the primary thing and the details of the commits the secondary thing. I want it the other way around. Paul.