From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: new gitk feature Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:09:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <17487.21137.344427.173131@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 26 17:09:34 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 1FYle0-0008Md-6O for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:09:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964800AbWDZPJ2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:09:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964801AbWDZPJ2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:09:28 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:10716 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964800AbWDZPJ2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:09:28 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3QF9PtH027729 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:09:26 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k3QF9OtD029658; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:09:25 -0700 To: Paul Mackerras In-Reply-To: <17487.21137.344427.173131@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.74__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.134 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > I just pushed some changes to gitk which add a new feature, the > ability to have multiple "views" of a repository. Each view is a > subgraph of the full graph. At the moment the only subgraph that you > can specify is the subgraph containing the commits that affect a > specified set of files or directories. You can switch between views > quickly, and if the currently selected commit exists in the new view > when you switch views, it is selected in the new view. This gets close to something I wanted, but at the same time falls very short of it because the views are always shown completely disjoint. I've wanted for a long time to have a way to _highlight_ commits. That's actually very much a "view" thing, but it's a mode where you really see one view, but the commits that exist in another view have a different color (or have the commits that _don't_ exist in the other view be grayed out). I hope that your new "view" thing would support this notion too: instead of having to totally switch between view, it would be wonderful if you could have one "master view" and then use another view to "highlight". Also, I think revision information should be part of a view. For example, in the "highlight" case, I'd love to have the "main view" be the default "everything", and then have some way to _highlight_ the view that is defined by the revision pattern "v1.3.1.." Any possibility of something light that? I'd _love_ to be able to see the whole tree, but with things that touch certain files or things that are newer highlighted. (Btw, the "revision information" is also cool things like "--unpacked". I actually use "gitk --unpacked" every once in a while, just because it's such a cool way to say "show me everything I've added since I packed the repo last). Linus