[ANNOUNCE] GitJungle is out!

Hi all,

We've just released GitJungle
(http://www.plasticscm.com/labs/gitjungle.aspx), a git branch explorer
based on the same codebase we use in our version control product,
plastic scm.

We wanted to call it something like GitForest (you know, so many
branches and trees :P) but the name was already reserved...

GitJungle is a beta and works on Linux, Mac and Windows and basically
we'd love to get feedback. The drawing approach we use is a little bit
different from what other git tools are using: we draw horizontally
instead of vertically, we think it is a better way but, you know, it is
probably a matter of preference.

I'd really like if you could give it a try and of course any feedback
(including tough critics) will be more than welcome.

Thanks,

pablo

"psantosl@codicesoftware.com" [off-list ref] writes:

We've just released GitJungle
(http://www.plasticscm.com/labs/gitjungle.aspx), a git branch explorer
based on the same codebase we use in our version control product,
plastic scm.

We wanted to call it something like GitForest (you know, so many
branches and trees :P) but the name was already reserved...

GitJungle is a beta and works on Linux, Mac and Windows and basically
we'd love to get feedback. The drawing approach we use is a little bit
different from what other git tools are using: we draw horizontally
instead of vertically, we think it is a better way but, you know, it is
probably a matter of preference.

I'd really like if you could give it a try and of course any feedback
(including tough critics) will be more than welcome.

Could you add information about GitJungle in the correct place at
https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools
page on Git Wiki?

Thanks in advance
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

On 12/13/2010 12:12 PM, psantosl@codicesoftware.com wrote:

We've just released GitJungle
[...] The drawing approach we use is a little bit
different from what other git tools are using: we draw horizontally
instead of vertically, we think it is a better way but, you know, it is
probably a matter of preference.

Given that git doesn't permanently record the branch that a commit was
first made on, how do you decide on what row to draw a commit?  E.g., if
I have two branches A and B that share a common ancestor

      o-o  <- A
     /
o-o-o
     \
      o-o  <- B

how do you decide whether to draw the ancestor on the row for A vs. the
row for B?

Michael

-- 
Michael Haggerty
mhagger@alum.mit.edu
http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/

Hi Michael,

The commits are walked from the heads, starting on master. Once a commit
is assigned to a branch, it stays there. So the diagram would have a
different aspect if the heads were walked in a different order.

David (in CC) is the one to ask for details, he's still struggling to
get a better render than what we have right now.

Thanks,

pablo


On 12/14/2010 16:46, Michael Haggerty wrote:

On 12/13/2010 12:12 PM, psantosl@codicesoftware.com wrote:

quoted

We've just released GitJungle
[...] The drawing approach we use is a little bit
different from what other git tools are using: we draw horizontally
instead of vertically, we think it is a better way but, you know, it is
probably a matter of preference.

Given that git doesn't permanently record the branch that a commit was
first made on, how do you decide on what row to draw a commit?  E.g., if
I have two branches A and B that share a common ancestor

      o-o  <- A
     /
o-o-o
     \
      o-o  <- B

how do you decide whether to draw the ancestor on the row for A vs. the
row for B?

Michael