Re: Can I have this, pretty please?

["Govind Salinas" <govindsalinas@gmail.com>]

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Since you all are talking about such things, I thought I would show
you a shot of my git UI.  It does what I think Linus is talking about.
 I have a window of x commits which I show in a list and allow the
user to look at each one.  You can click on a commit to see full
details.  There are back/next buttons to browse the entire history and
date/author/etc filters to narrow your results.  The only thing I am
missing is the pretty chart that gitk and others have.  The chart  (in
my app) would only show the chart for the current window of commits.
I'll get to that sometime after work gives me enough time to start
working on this again.

Is this something like what you had in mind?

On 8/12/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
> > >
> > > So, use "git log --pretty=oneline" instead, which doesn't have the
> > > expense.
> >
> > Yes, like managing a manual with grep is all one needs.  git log
> > --pretty=oneline provides just the commit headers, but offers no way
> > to jump into the commits themselves and back easily.
>
> You misunderstand.
>
> I was suggesting you do a *tool* that bases its listing on
> --pretty=oneline, and then goes from there.
>
> If you don't show the graph anyway, all the complex and expensive things
> that "git-rev-list --topo-order" does is pretty much totally useless.
> You're going to show the commits as a list anyway, and then when you
> *select* one commit for closer inspection, you can then try to do a better
> job at that point of doing the reachability (ie parenthood is trivial, and
> the branch reachability is cheap if it's close to the tip of the tree,
> which it would almost always be).
>
> The real problem with the topological sort is that it requires you to have
> the full history. That not only makes everything pretty big, it also means
> that the startup cost is bad, since you can't do things incrementally.
>
> But if you have a client that is incremental anyway, almost all of that
> goes away.
>
>                         Linus
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