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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by "C. Michael Pilato" <cm...@collab.net> on 2012/10/26 22:04:46 UTC
'svn mergeinfo' graph bikeshed patch
Just felt like painting.
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C. Michael Pilato <cm...@collab.net>
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Re: 'svn mergeinfo' graph bikeshed patch
Posted by Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com>.
On 27.10.2012 07:25, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [Branko Čibej]
>> On 26.10.2012 21:04, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>> Just felt like painting.
>> The only problem I see with this is that, in many monospaced fonts, '
>> and ` glyphs are not mirror images; whereas / and \ almost always are.
> Well, note that his patch uses the symmetry of ` and , which (though
> not perfect) is closer than the symmetry of ` and '.
>
>> Also there's no guarantee that dash and waka (->) will be properly
>> aligned to form a symmetric arrow.
> That may be true. Looks fine here, but then I still use the classic
> X11 'fixed' font.
>
> Is anyone else thinking that alongside 'svn mergeinfo --xml' we need
> '--dot'? No? Just me? (:
>
> Peter
--svg? --vrml! :)
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Re: 'svn mergeinfo' graph bikeshed patch
Posted by Peter Samuelson <pe...@p12n.org>.
[Branko Čibej]
> On 26.10.2012 21:04, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> > Just felt like painting.
>
> The only problem I see with this is that, in many monospaced fonts, '
> and ` glyphs are not mirror images; whereas / and \ almost always are.
Well, note that his patch uses the symmetry of ` and , which (though
not perfect) is closer than the symmetry of ` and '.
> Also there's no guarantee that dash and waka (->) will be properly
> aligned to form a symmetric arrow.
That may be true. Looks fine here, but then I still use the classic
X11 'fixed' font.
Is anyone else thinking that alongside 'svn mergeinfo --xml' we need
'--dot'? No? Just me? (:
Peter
Re: 'svn mergeinfo' graph bikeshed patch
Posted by "C. Michael Pilato" <cm...@collab.net>.
On 10/26/2012 06:10 PM, Julian Foad wrote:
>> From: Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com>
>
>> To: dev@subversion.apache.org Cc: Sent: Friday, 26 October 2012, 22:13
>> Subject: Re: 'svn mergeinfo' graph bikeshed patch
>>
>> On 26.10.2012 21:04, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>> Just felt like painting.
>>
>> The only problem I see with this is that, in many monospaced fonts, '
>> and ` glyphs are not mirror images; whereas / and \ almost always are.
>> Also there's no guarantee that dash and waka (->) will be properly
>> aligned to form a symmetric arrow.
Good points.
> Philip suggested to me that we could turn the graph through 90 degrees,
I had a similar notion today, but I wasn't satisfied that it would provide
any visual improvement. That said, it *would* give us room to show more
(and more interesting) information, as you indicated.
I notice that we don't have an --xml version of this subcommand's output.
Are there plans to develop some reasonably sensible way of packaging up this
information for third-party consumption, perhaps even by a wrapper script
that drives some graphical graphing (heh...) program?
(By the way, as this is my first bit of feedback on the feature at all,
shame on me for starting out with an implied complaint expressed via patch.
To be clear, I actually kinda dig the idea.)
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C. Michael Pilato <cm...@collab.net>
CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Enterprise Cloud Development
Re: 'svn mergeinfo' graph bikeshed patch
Posted by Julian Foad <ju...@btopenworld.com>.
> From: Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com>
> To: dev@subversion.apache.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Friday, 26 October 2012, 22:13
> Subject: Re: 'svn mergeinfo' graph bikeshed patch
>
> On 26.10.2012 21:04, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>> Just felt like painting.
>
> The only problem I see with this is that, in many monospaced fonts, '
> and ` glyphs are not mirror images; whereas / and \ almost always are.
> Also there's no guarantee that dash and waka (->) will be properly
> aligned to form a symmetric arrow.
Philip suggested to me that we could turn the graph through 90 degrees, which might make it fit the typical console screen space better, given that we want to show at leastone more previous merge plus some kind of indication about cherry-picks. For other ideas, see <http://wiki.apache.org/subversion/MergeinfoCommand#Functional_.26_UI_Changes>.
- Julian
Re: 'svn mergeinfo' graph bikeshed patch
Posted by Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com>.
On 26.10.2012 21:04, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Just felt like painting.
The only problem I see with this is that, in many monospaced fonts, '
and ` glyphs are not mirror images; whereas / and \ almost always are.
Also there's no guarantee that dash and waka (->) will be properly
aligned to form a symmetric arrow.
-- Brane