Re: New features in gitk

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Marco Costalba wrote:
> > 
> > I have tried to overcome --topo-order in qgit but I found it very 
> > difficult, too much for me.
> > 
> > Lazily drawing the layout it doesn't mean that you lazy load the data 
> > from git, indeed you load all the git-log output as soon as it 
> > arrives.
> 
> Would it be more palatable if I tried to write some 
> visualization-specific front-end that acted kind of like "git rev-list", 
> but would have some way of "resetting" its output?

Heh, Shawn and I were discussing this when we met in San Jose earlier this 
month.  The application we had in mind was a common backend for graphical 
representation of the commit graph, which could be used by git gui to show 
(part of) the history.  The ultimate goal was a graphical rebase -i.

I would have _loved_ to implement this.  Alas, as it appears my choice of 
job was less than brilliant, and even when I have some spare moments at 
the end of the day, I watch movies to forget the day, instead of 
implementing this fascinating and useful feature.

Ciao,
Dscho