From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: New features in gitk Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 18:17:47 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <18211.59478.188419.397886@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <18212.13862.637991.30536@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <18217.41899.54812.227152@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <18218.63946.772767.179841@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Marco Costalba , Paul Mackerras , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 02 19:19:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Io16d-0000op-61 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:18:55 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755433AbXKBSSg (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:18:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754029AbXKBSSg (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:18:36 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:59991 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752648AbXKBSSf (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:18:35 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 02 Nov 2007 18:18:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp056) with SMTP; 02 Nov 2007 19:18:34 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+beSoSoa2bmX+3f4Lp4ggMcqjMHxuQIogZ48JEl5 tqSDWbyGMGp2Cb X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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