Antoine Pelisse <apeli...@gmail.com> writes: On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artag...@gmail.com> wrote: > Alessandro Di Marco wrote: >> this is a hack I made a couple of years ago in order to store my current >> location in git commits (I travel a lot and being able to associate a >> place with the commit date helps me to quickly recover what were doing >> at that time). Long story short, the screeenshot at >> http://tinypic.com/r/wars40/5 shows the new gitk interface once this >> patch has been integrated. Geolocation is controlled by two envvars >> GIT_AUTHOR_PLACE and COMMITTER_PLACE, respectively. You can set them via >> something like this: > > Obviously very interesting. Now, how do we mainline (parts of) this > feature? I'll raise some questions here:
I think it could be nice to provide a simple shell script to build the location, callable from a post-commit hook, to construct a "geolocation" note. Gitk could be programmed to read the notes to get the location, but once again, I'm not sure it should be mainlined. Well, I don't see how the file can be kept synchronized with the tree, but in case it would be also suitable for the author/committer name, email and date :-) Seriously, this is just a hack; the other nice thing coming out from this patch is what I called the Project's Patch Graph (or PPG), ie. a DAG starting from the project founder location and spreading all over the world (depending on the project of course!) IMHO it's an interesting snapshot of how the project is evolving. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
