From: John Ellson <ellson@research.att.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wanted - a file browser interface to git
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:23:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4355A00B.4000806@research.att.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510181806250.3369@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, John Ellson wrote:
>
>> An example is: "I know that file xxx contained algorithm yyy at some point in
>> the past and now I'd like to browse back through the history of xxx to find
>> the exact details."
>>
>
> You are aware of "git whatchanged -p xxx", right?
>
> Yeah, it's not graphical, and I agree that it might be very cool to have a
> graphical version of it. But I thought I'd mention it even so. A
> surprising number of people seem to have never realized, and at least for
> me personally, it's one of the most common things I do.
>
> Linus
>
Linus,
I wasn't aware of it, no. Looks very useful. Thanks.
I see that you can take the tree id from the diff-tree lines and
then produce the state of the file at that time with "cg-admin-cat -r
<id> xxx"
Is that how you would do it?
Are there any plans for cogito to support it?
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-19 1:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-19 0:58 Wanted - a file browser interface to git John Ellson
2005-10-19 1:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-19 1:23 ` John Ellson [this message]
2005-10-19 3:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-19 3:15 ` [PATCH] cg-history FILE [NTH_PARENT] - was: " John Ellson
2005-10-19 4:01 ` [PATCH] cg-history FILE [NTH_PARENT] Linus Torvalds
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