RE: gitweb: please show tags file history browsing

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> -----Original Message-----
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Tjernlund wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Jakub Narebski [mailto:jnareb@xxxxxxxxx]
> >> On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Tjernlund wrote:
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: Jakub Narebski [mailto:jnareb@xxxxxxxxx]
> >>>>
> >>>> "Tjernlund" <tjernlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I would really like to see where the tags are when browsing
> >>>>> file or directory history in gitweb. Would that be possible?
> >>
> >>>> While it probably be possible to show tags in 'history' view, it would
> >>>> be not easy.  The problem is that 'history' view shows only commits
> >>>> that touch specified file or directory, and tagged commits usually do
> >>>> not touch those files (at least if one is using "bump version number"
> >>>> commits to tag them).
> >>>>
> >>>> So you would have:
> >>>> 1. Design where to show those tags - they would be between shown
> >>>>    commits.
> >>>> 2. Create code which shows some/all tags that are between commits in
> >>>>    the presence of nonlinear history, without affecting performance
> >>>>    too badly.
> >>>
> >>> Ah, that is too bad because I think it would really useful.
> >>> Image browsing a drivers history in the linux kernel. Then it would be
> >>> really nice to see what changes/bug fixes went into what release.
> >>
> >> First, you can help with the first issue even if you can't help with
> >> the coding itself.
> >
> > I like the gitk way of showing tags, won't that work in gitweb too?
> 
> Err... "gitk" shows tags, but so does 'shortlog' and 'log' view in
> gitweb.  The 'history' view in gitweb doesn't show intermediate tags,
> but neither does "gitk -- <path>".

I know, I just meant the yellow note with tag name in it, how tags
are displayed. When they are display is another matter :)

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