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pcottle / learnGitBranching

An interactive git visualization and tutorial. Aspiring students of git can use this app to educate and challenge themselves towards mastery of git!
https://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/
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Use the visualizations for a git repo #119

Closed TechplexEngineer closed 11 years ago

TechplexEngineer commented 11 years ago

This isn't really an issue, but I am wondering how hard it would be to use the visualizer on an existing git repo. I really like how the tree looks.

pcottle commented 11 years ago

Hey Blake,

Theoretically it could be quite easy. You can export and import trees with the export tree and import tree command, so I already have support for arbitrary loading.

I would just need a bash script that would take a git repo, parse the structure of the branches, and put it into the format that my vis accepts. For most repros this would make a nice visualization, but if there were orphan branches (or stale branches that were hundreds of commits back) it might degrade :-/

It would be nice to run a quick bash command and then open up the "status" of your repro in the browser. Is that how you would use it?

TechplexEngineer commented 11 years ago

You hit the nail on the head.

This would be a totally awesome feature.

I wonder if there would be a way to rig this up to write the json from the bash script to a file then pass the file location as a querystring parameter to have the engine load it.

Cheers, Blake

pcottle commented 11 years ago

Great, I'll leave the task open then since it's a cool idea. I have a script that can easily find the difference in commits between other branches and master, it would just be a matter of putting that into JSON.

It'd actually be easiest to encode the json and stick it in the URL which the engine would load upon init. I have a bunch of hidden-ish query parameters that I abuse all the time for sending people examples, this could be another one of them

ryantheleach commented 11 years ago

You may be interested in working with ungit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkBVAi3oKvo&feature=youtu.be

https://github.com/FredrikNoren/ungit/issues/84

pcottle commented 11 years ago

Yeah I saw this, it's awesome!!!! Looks like someone closed this out for me :D

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pcottle commented 11 years ago

Right now I'm not sure if it makes sense to work together per se, but I'd be really interested to see how ungit parses out the underlying tree structure and how I could leverage that with my app. Glad it's open source!