Re: git and time

Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Matthew L Foster wrote:

quoted

From a web display/generic notion of integrity perspective time order 
matters to me but it looks like I am the only one. Keeping track of 
_local_ commit time would not add any dependencies.

Actually, I think one problem here is that anybody why looks at just the 
gitweb interface may not realize how git works.

If you use gitk as your primary way of learning about a git problem, the 
whole time issue just goes away, because gitk shows the _real_ 
relationships so well.

I used gitk in all my initial explanations of git, because it turned a 
fairly abstract "here, let me explain how it works" into a "See? Look at 
this" kind of situation.

True that. I would have had a hard time introducing git as The SCM in 
the company if it hadn't been for gitk and qgit. They both let you just 
skip over 90% of that initial steep part of the learning curve and jump 
straight to work.

I think gitweb is great (in a way I have _never_ felt about any of the CVS 
web interfaces I have ever seen), but gitweb doesn't really explain how 
things work as well as gitk does.

Someone started hacking on a web-thingie to show the graph. Whatever 
happened to that? If it's no longer alive, perhaps we could add some 
qgit/gitk screenshots to the git wiki/docs so the people who spend most 
of their lives in browsers can get some visual aid in understanding the 
way git works.

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