Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This should be an example of how important interfaces can be to what feels > "slow". I learn new thing (or relearn things I knew but did not apply in my argument myself) every day from you, and this is a prime example ;-). I agree that latency in giving feedback helps the feel of speed, and the feel is the most important thing in UI. > Btw, Junio - even if nobody writes a graphical front-end for that > "--incremental" flag, this should be in 1.5.0. If only so that people > could write those front-ends and not have to patch git to get the blame > information out of it. > > The exact format for the output of this thing is obviously very debatable: > it might well be worthwhile to use a more verbose thing that also gives > the commit name and date etc information (since git-blame knows it), so > that any graphical front-end doesn't need to look up every commit as it > comes out of the incremntal blame engine. I just wrote it as a quick > "proof of concept" thing, and the output is obviously pretty minimalistic > right now. I would think we probably should reuse the --porcelain output, perhaps enhancing it even more. - 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