Feature: Support move/rename in custom log

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Would like the ability to be able to have moves/renames described in the custom 
log.

[I decided to see how Gource handled community development with data from an 
online game, and after figuring out --hide tree etc, it kinda works, but it 
would be nice to see the 'branching' of groups by being able to create a 
relationship, i.e. when a player leaves one group and creates another, that 
would represent a branch]

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kfs...@gmail.com on 8 Aug 2010 at 3:39

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I've thought about adding this. On a rename you would see a file move to 
another directory.

Not exactly sure if this is what you want since you seem to be using Gource at 
a group/directory level rather than a file level.

Kind of seems like you need a visualization using blobby molecules to represent 
groups :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaballs

Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 8 Aug 2010 at 11:29

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

[GoogleCodeExporter]

VCS visualization is actually my main use, but when I saw the options and 
looked at the code, it seemed that your code base is well situated to do some 
really awesome things.

copy/rename for vcs would be useful too: git and mercurial support it 
reasonably well; you could deduce it for svn commits (if the option is enabled 
and a file/folder is in-flight and a file/folder of the same name gets added...)

Original comment by kfs...@gmail.com on 9 Aug 2010 at 8:35

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I believe the root directory will still light up. Updates propagate up the tree 
and reset since_last_node_change (which determines the brightness) on the 
branches that lead to the update.

I suppose really what you want here is a do-no-propagate option.

Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 9 Aug 2010 at 8:50