Re: [feature request] gitweb: tags in history

[Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 20:07, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:47:12 +0200, Lars Hjemli wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 19:21, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Lars Hjemli wrote:
>> >> <shameless plug>
>> >> With cgit, you can answer such questions by combining path limiting
>> >> and range queries, e.g.
>> >> http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/log/scan-tree.c?qt=range&q=v0.8.2..v0.8.3
>> >> shows all commits affecting scan-tree.c between v0.8.2 and v0.8.3.
>> >> Maybe gitweb could implement something similar?
>> >> </shameless plug>
>> >
>> > Gitweb also supports range limiting in log-like views from some time,
>> > but currently there is no UI for that, and you have to handcraft the URL,
>> > e.g.:
>> >
>> >  http://gitweb.example.com/repo.git?a=history;f=foo.c;hpb=v0.8.2;hb=v0.8.3
>> >
>> > or (in the path_info form)
>> >
>> >    http://gitweb.example.com/repo.git/history/v0.8.2..v0.8.3:/foo.c
>>
>> Nice, I didn't know gitweb supported this - maybe it's all Jean needs?
>
> Well, as long as there is no UI for it, it's not too useful: I'm can
> run git on the command line for the same result (with git log.)
>
> Also, it doesn't exactly suits my needs. I don't necessarily know in
> advance the range in which the change happened. Quite often, the
> question I have to answer is the other way around, that is: when did a
> given change happen? Sometimes I know the commit ID and I can just call
> "git name-rev" (although it's somewhat slow and the output isn't
> friendly), but sometimes I don't know even that, and this is when I'd
> like to be able to just browse the history for a given file with
> all relevant tags printed. This also gives a more general picture
> of what happened to the file over time immediately, which is sometimes
> useful.

Ok, this fundamentally does not mix well with the kind of output which
gitweb/cgit generates (linear list of commits) - you'll need
--topo-order and a visual indication of "branch timelines", i.e. gitk.

-- 
larsh