Re: gitk highlight feature

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Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I just pushed out some changes to gitk which allow you to use one view
> to highlight another (see the "Highlight" submenu under the "View"
> menu), and which allow you to specify arbitrary git-rev-list arguments
> for a view.  The arguments string uses shell quoting conventions.

Eh, the string entered by me is quoted by the program, or do I
have to quote it myself?  I suspect it should not be so bad to
code, even if you have to do it with tcl ;-).

> I had been thinking of having fields in the view editor dialog where
> you could put in refs that you did and didn't want included, date
> specifiers, etc., all in separate fields with suitable labels.  Now
> I'm thinking that it's probably just as convenient to put
> "ORIG_HEAD.." into the git-rev-list arguments field as it is to put
> "ORIG_HEAD" in the "Don't include commits reachable from this" field.
> There may be an argument for having fields for "Exclude commits before
> this date" and "Exclude commits after this date", because those things
> often have spaces in them (e.g. "2 weeks ago") which would have to be
> quoted in the git-rev-list arguments field.
>
> Thoughts?

Calendar widgets.  BTW, "rev-list --since=2.days.ago" would work
rather well ;-).

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