From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: More precise tag following Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:00:53 -0800 Message-ID: <7vzm84gmei.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <7vy7nqxd08.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20070127080126.GC9966@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 27 23:01:09 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 1HAvbh-0006io-6q for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:01:09 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751796AbXA0WA7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:00:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751779AbXA0WA7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:00:59 -0500 Received: from fed1rmmtao08.cox.net ([68.230.241.31]:59771 "EHLO fed1rmmtao08.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751796AbXA0WAz (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:00:55 -0500 Received: from fed1rmimpo01.cox.net ([70.169.32.71]) by fed1rmmtao08.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.03 201-2131-130-104-20060516) with ESMTP id <20070127220054.WNYS16632.fed1rmmtao08.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net>; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:00:54 -0500 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.5.247.80]) by fed1rmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id GMzw1W00Y1kojtg0000000; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:59:57 -0500 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds writes: > This should be an example of how important interfaces can be to what feels > "slow". I learn new thing (or relearn things I knew but did not apply in my argument myself) every day from you, and this is a prime example ;-). I agree that latency in giving feedback helps the feel of speed, and the feel is the most important thing in UI. > Btw, Junio - even if nobody writes a graphical front-end for that > "--incremental" flag, this should be in 1.5.0. If only so that people > could write those front-ends and not have to patch git to get the blame > information out of it. > > The exact format for the output of this thing is obviously very debatable: > it might well be worthwhile to use a more verbose thing that also gives > the commit name and date etc information (since git-blame knows it), so > that any graphical front-end doesn't need to look up every commit as it > comes out of the incremntal blame engine. I just wrote it as a quick > "proof of concept" thing, and the output is obviously pretty minimalistic > right now. I would think we probably should reuse the --porcelain output, perhaps enhancing it even more.