Re: new gitk feature

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Linus Torvalds writes:
> > 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.
> 
> That should be quite doable.  How about I show the commits that are in
> the highlight view in bold?  That won't conflict with the existing
> yellow background for commits that match the find criteria.

Bold sounds good to me.

> > (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).
> 
> OK, I didn't know about --unpacked. :)  I plan to add stuff to the
> view definition window to allow you to select commits to
> include/exclude by reachability from given commits (by head/tag/ID)
> and when I do I can add a way to say --unpacked too.

It's more of a gimmick, but I find myself using it occasionally just to 
decide whether it's time to repack. It falls out automatically - not 
because I thought I'd ever want it, but because the --unpacked semantics 
for git-rev-list are what incremental packing needed.

(Of course, sane people probably just do "git count-objects" to decide to 
repack).

		Linus