[RFC] branchview-NG

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

Here's an example:

http://hg.xavamedia.nl/mercurial/graph/graph/9eb2?revcount=5

Cheers,

Dirkjan

Bill Barry wrote:
> How does this work with multiple heads/named branches?
> Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> As some of you may have noticed, I've been working on an update for the 
>> old branchview extension. Matt mentioned he liked the idea save for some 
>> crappy implementation details, so I've been trying to reimplement the 
>> idea without all of the crap that came with the old implementation. This 
>> work is now more or less finished, so I was wondering if this could now 
>> be included in mainline Mercurial as an addition to the web interface.
>>
>> I worked from the old branchview code, but was able to replace pretty 
>> much all the bits there (especially the dirty HTML drawing library and 
>> the blob of bzr code that was trying to do some topology sorting.)
>>
>> My example is here: http://hg.xavamedia.nl/mercurial/graph/graph.
>>
>> Review the tip changeset to see how it's implemented. Basically, this 
>> uses an adaptation of the (linear) graphlog algorithm to come up with 
>> the graph, which is then converted to a JSON representation by a new 
>> webcommand. A JavaScript class is included that draws the graph on a 
>> browser canvas, which should work (and was tested) in Firefox, Safari 
>> and Opera. For IE users, I've included ExplorerCanvas, an open source 
>> (Apache 2.0) JavaScript library that exposes a canvas API based on IE's 
>> VML implementation, which appears to work alright.
>>
>> This means it works in all 4 major browsers, although the spacing isn't 
>> perfect in IE (and the positioning could be a little in places in other 
>> browsers, but I'm hoping others will step in and help improving that). 
>> I've only added links and a template in the coal style for now, will add 
>> the other ones if this is accepted. So, I'd like to know what you think!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dirkjan
>>
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