Re: Prototype git commit viewer

[Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>]

Dear diary, on Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:40:13AM CEST, I got a letter
where Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> told me that...
> Over the weekend I hacked up a prototype viewer for git commits in
> Tk.  It's called gitk and is at:
> 
> 	http://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk
> 
> (that's the actual script itself :).
> 
> It displays a window with two panes; the upper one shows a summary of
> all the commits with a graph on the left showing the relationship of
> the commits (each dot represents a commit, with lines joining parents
> and children).  The list is displayed with the most recent commit at
> the top, and parents below their children.
> 
> If you click on a commit, the bottom pane shows more details of the
> commit including the commit comments.
> 
> I plan to add a pane to show the list of files changed by the commit,
> and provide a way to pop up a dirdiff-style diff viewer window to view
> the actual diffs.  I also plan to add a way to view the diffs between
> arbitrary points in the graph using girdiff.  There is quite a lot of
> UI tweaking to be done too.  However, it's already quite useful in its
> current state.

What are its advantages to git-viz?

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