Re: More precise tag following

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

This should be an example of how important interfaces can be to what feels 
"slow".

I learn new thing (or relearn things I knew but did not apply in
my argument myself) every day from you, and this is a prime
example ;-).  I agree that latency in giving feedback helps the
feel of speed, and the feel is the most important thing in UI.

Btw, Junio - even if nobody writes a graphical front-end for that 
"--incremental" flag, this should be in 1.5.0. If only so that people 
could write those front-ends and not have to patch git to get the blame 
information out of it.

The exact format for the output of this thing is obviously very debatable: 
it might well be worthwhile to use a more verbose thing that also gives 
the commit name and date etc information (since git-blame knows it), so 
that any graphical front-end doesn't need to look up every commit as it 
comes out of the incremntal blame engine. I just wrote it as a quick 
"proof of concept" thing, and the output is obviously pretty minimalistic 
right now.

I would think we probably should reuse the --porcelain output,
perhaps enhancing it even more.