Re: RFC: Very useful script to SVG graph the git commits from a file orientated view

looking a little bit more into this, I was very suprised....

there seems to be little/no tools in the git ecosystem that studies the dependencies between commits based on the file they modified and/or the conflict they would cause.

Is there any pre-existing tool to do that ? It can be done with git-log --name-only(the graph_git.pl is just a graphing layer above that command) but i'm suprised that I couldn't find anything else

And that was at the file level, is there any tool to help find what commits can be reordered without causing conflicts ? I am not sure if there is an easy way to extract potential conflict information from git...

    Regards

    Jérémy Rosen

fight key loggers : write some perl using vim

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Hi Jeremy,

  It would be great if you could send your email again to the list,
  so
that other people can see that there is interest in my script :)
Makes it easier for me to get it included.

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* The tooltips are very handy, but it would be nice if the tooltip
would activate on the whole commit ellipsis, not just the text
inside the ellipsis

Yes, tooltips are a real pain.  I don't know how to do that.

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* I would love to have tooltips on the arrows too. when trying to
follow what arrow is what file it makes things really handi

Actually they do have tooltips - it's just that the arrows are really
thin so you have to be very accurate with your mouse pointing!

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It would be nice if there were a way to filter only some files in
the output... there probably is with the git-log like syntax but
i'm not a master of that... hints would be welcome

Try just specifying the files:

$ graph_git.pl -10  filename1 filename2

I haven't tested, but it should work

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is there a public repo for this script so I can point other people
to it ?

No - any suggestions as to where to put it are welcome :)

John

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Jeremy Rosen [off-list ref] wrote:

looking a little bit more into this, I was very suprised....

there seems to be little/no tools in the git ecosystem that studies the dependencies between commits based on the file they modified and/or the conflict they would cause.

Is there any pre-existing tool to do that ? It can be done with git-log --name-only(the graph_git.pl is just a graphing layer above that command) but i'm suprised that I couldn't find anything else

And that was at the file level, is there any tool to help find what commits can be reordered without causing conflicts ? I am not sure if there is an easy way to extract potential conflict information from git...

It looks like this tool will do "Proactive Merge Conflicts Detection":

http://commitq.com/

But it's true that it would be nice if there was something in git itself.

Thanks,
Christian.