Re: git and time

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Linus Torvalds wrote:

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

--
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@xxxxxx
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Tel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel Development]     [Gcc Help]     [IETF Annouce]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Networking]     [Security]     [V4L]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]     [Fedora Users]