From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: Integrating gitweb and git-browser (was: Re: VCS comparison table) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:52:11 +0200 Message-ID: <20061018015211.GP20017@pasky.or.cz> References: <20061017110655.f7bcf3f1.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> <20061018001455.GI20017@pasky.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 18 03:55:55 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 1Ga0bQ-0003t4-Hw for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:52:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750823AbWJRBwO (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:52:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750978AbWJRBwO (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:52:14 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:12516 "EHLO machine.or.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750823AbWJRBwN (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:52:13 -0400 Received: (qmail 23775 invoked by uid 2001); 18 Oct 2006 03:52:11 +0200 To: Jakub Narebski Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Dear diary, on Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:36:36AM CEST, I got a letter where Jakub Narebski said that... > Petr Baudis wrote: > > > BTW, I'm thinking about implementing some plugin functionality for > > gitweb > > Features support is kind of plugin system for gitweb. But certainly we could > split gitweb into modules. > > > so that you can add your own views, so that git-browser can > > integrate to it more reasonably. (Currently it has completely different > > UI and you have to patch gitweb in order to get the proper links at > > proper places.) Sure, git-browser might get fully integrated to gitweb > > later but that needs to be done sensitively so that people are not > > scared by the horrible javascript blobs, etc.; currently git-browser is > > very experimental, and adding it would be quite intrusive. > > I was thinking about adding using JavaScript, in shortlog (and perhaps > shortlog-extended, i.e. with date and author) views one extra "diagram" > column, with width set using JavaScript generated embedded style, and use > only part of git-browser that generates diagram to draw it there. Shortlog is paginated and that's not very practical for diagrams, I think - you need to gradually extend it instead in that case. But yes, keeping the _visual_ difference of git-browser and gitweb as small as possible has been the main reason for me to think about integrating it more tightly. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ #!/bin/perl -sp0777i