branchview?

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:06:47PM +0100, Christian Ebert wrote:
> * Matt Mackall on Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 12:44:21 -0600
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:32:14PM +0100, Christian Ebert wrote:
> >> I've made a "works for me" version with crew available at:
> >> <http://www.blacktrash.org/hg/hg-branchview/>
> > 
> > For the record, I'd like to see something like branchview make it to
> > mainline. But the current implementation is quite scary. For instance,
> > each pixel in the graph is drawn by using Javascript to add a new HTML
> > div. As clever as that is, I can't merge such an atrocity in good
> > conscience. It also pulls a big ugly chunk of code from BZR along with
> > it to calculate the graph. It should probably instead figure out a way
> > to share code with the much faster and prettier graphlog extension.
> 
> I didn't mean to imply it should go in as is. As I wrote in my
> other mail the version mentioned on the wiki is against a rather
> old Hg, so for the time being I wanted to make it available for
> those interested. Perhaps someone is enticed to improve it;
> again, as mentioned, I don't have the knowledge.
> 
> If you think it's a bad idea to publish it, no prob, I just take
> it from the server.

No, I'd like to see progress towards something mergeable.

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