Re: gitk layout bug

[Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>]

Linus Torvalds writes:

> In the current git repository, try this:
> 
> 	gitk origin/master..origin/pu
> 
> and it starts out looking ok.
> 
> But then scroll down a bit (say, press "PageDown" ten to twenty times), 
> and scroll up again, and now that thing is totally unusable.
> 
> Is it just me?

No, I have seen it occasionally (though not recently), but I've never
been able to trigger it when I had some time to debug it. :/

I'd be interested to know if you can trigger it with the "dev" branch
of gitk, too.  The dev branch doesn't use --topo-order or
--date-order, but instead does the topological sort itself, so the
cold-cache case is a lot faster (and the hot-cache case goes just as
fast as before).  And because I can now reorder the commits, I can put
each open-circle commit just after the last merge that has it as a
parent, which ends up looking much nicer too.

Paul.