From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: More precise tag following Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:47:40 -0500 Message-ID: <20070129204740.GA30963@spearce.org> References: <20070127080126.GC9966@spearce.org> <7vzm84gmei.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vps8zfqlx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20070129061807.GA4634@spearce.org> <20070129192911.GA12903@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 29 21:47:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HBdPr-0002X2-I0 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:47:51 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752039AbXA2Urs (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:47:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752599AbXA2Urs (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:47:48 -0500 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:53238 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752039AbXA2Urr (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:47:47 -0500 Received: from cpe-74-70-48-173.nycap.res.rr.com ([74.70.48.173] helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HBdOw-0005gS-A2; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:46:54 -0500 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5B5B220FBAE; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:47:41 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski wrote: > Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:24:52AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> Anyway, all of these issues makes me suspect that the proper blame > >> interface is to basically *hide* the blame almost entirely, in order to > >> make the important parts much more visible, and in order to encourage > >> people to start looking for the piece of code that they are actually > >> interested in. > > > > One approach which might work is where you hover your mouse over a > > line, and it pops up a tiny window with the blame information if the > > mouse remains stationary for more than a second or two. > > > > Another thing which would be really useful is where the lines that > > have been changed in the last n commits (where n is probably between > > 3-5) are highlighted using different colors. That way you can see > > what was changed recently, which is often what you are most interested > > in. (As in, what changed recently that might have caused this file to > > get all screwed up?) > > It would be also nice to have window split into two, and for example > have at bottom details of the commit which changed current line, like > author, description, date, how many commits ago, branch name (e.g. taken > from commit message if it was merged), perhaps also patch... These are some really good ideas. I knew that if I made pretty technicolor crap available, people would tell me what they really needed. :-) I'll like steal them (er, uhm, implement them) in git-gui in the next day or so. The current blame UI was sort of a prototype. Once I tossed the original filename and original line number into that thing it started to become pretty obvious its just too cluttered. But at that point I wanted pretty colors, and uh, it was late... :-) -- Shawn.