[PATCH/RFC 0/4] gitweb: ViewVC-like "tree_blame" view

In response to Thomas Glanzmann (or rather a friend of his) request, 
here is series of patches which adds to tree view information about 
when last time and by whom was given file or directory touched.  As git 
records "snapshot history" and commits are whole tree, and not have per 
file history, it means that one wants to know last commit counting from 
the top which has the same version of file or the same tree.  This is 
something similar to blame (aka. annotate) for file, hence naming such 
view "tree_blame".

Current implementation is done inefficiently directly in gitweb, and 
serves rather as a proof of concept than as a serious implementation to 
use.

This series of patches is based on 'next' (v1.4.2-g39ee2f6) equivalent, 
but with the commit 25691fbe6d02135d55dfc3a5180e29890dce1521
   gitweb: Use --git-dir parameter instead of setting $ENV{'GIT_DIR'}
reverted, as it needs git version post v1.4.2-rc2, while I use git 
version 1.4.1.1, as there are no i386 RPMS for 1.4.2 yet.

ViewCVS/ViewVC prints the last touch of a a file in a directory and you 
can tell it to sort after the date criteria:
http://faumachine.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mutt/?sortby=date#dirlist

-- 
Jakub Narebski
ShadeHawk on #git
Poland

At the below URL (links of course _won't_ work)
  http://front.fuw.edu.pl/jnareb/tree_blame.html
is output of  "tree_blame" view. One can sort by Date (age), Author, Mode
and Filename. The date view was modelled after 'ls -l' view; the order of
columns probably should be changed to match it more closely.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

Hello,

In response to Thomas Glanzmann (or rather a friend of his) request,
here is series of patches which adds to tree view information about
when last time and by whom was given file or directory touched. 

thanks, I bounced the messages to him.

        Thomas

Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

quoted

In response to Thomas Glanzmann (or rather a friend of his) request,
here is series of patches which adds to tree view information about
when last time and by whom was given file or directory touched. 

thanks, I bounced the messages to him.

Just to note: this is proof of concept. The final implementation should have
engine written in C, in "core git", like git-blame. Currently this is very
expensive, so I didn't made gitweb with tree_blame available...

BTW. my reply to the first message have link to "screenshot" (saved view of
page to HTML) of the output.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git