reduce number of tags in log/summary view

reduce number of tags in log/summary view

[mohun106]

Hi,
I am looking for an option (if any) in cgitrc that can reduce the
number for tags of branch shown in log view or summary view.

I have a situation where a branch is tagged by our automatic build
systems. If on some branch the commit doesn't move ahead the web view
makes it clumsy. We have to scroll horizontally to see the full info
as all the tags occupy the space in a single line.

If an option exists that can control the number of tags in this kind
of situation that would be helpful.

regards,
Radha

reduce number of tags in log/summary view

[john]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 10:10:42PM -0700, Radha Mohan wrote:
> I am looking for an option (if any) in cgitrc that can reduce the
> number for tags of branch shown in log view or summary view.
> 
> I have a situation where a branch is tagged by our automatic build
> systems. If on some branch the commit doesn't move ahead the web view
> makes it clumsy. We have to scroll horizontally to see the full info
> as all the tags occupy the space in a single line.
> 
> If an option exists that can control the number of tags in this kind
> of situation that would be helpful.

The only option that affects this at the moment is the
enable-remote-branches setting, which defaults to false.  It doesn't
sound like you have remote branches, so I don't think that will help.

What does your ideal end result look like?  How should we choose which
refs to drop, and where can users find the dropped refs?

My only thought at the moment is to support switching on/off branch and
tag names in addition to the existing support for remote branches, or to
allow filtering by pattern or regex.

reduce number of tags in log/summary view

[mohun106]

On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 4:35 AM, John Keeping <john at keeping.me.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 10:10:42PM -0700, Radha Mohan wrote:
>> I am looking for an option (if any) in cgitrc that can reduce the
>> number for tags of branch shown in log view or summary view.
>>
>> I have a situation where a branch is tagged by our automatic build
>> systems. If on some branch the commit doesn't move ahead the web view
>> makes it clumsy. We have to scroll horizontally to see the full info
>> as all the tags occupy the space in a single line.
>>
>> If an option exists that can control the number of tags in this kind
>> of situation that would be helpful.
>
> The only option that affects this at the moment is the
> enable-remote-branches setting, which defaults to false.  It doesn't
> sound like you have remote branches, so I don't think that will help.
>
> What does your ideal end result look like?  How should we choose which
> refs to drop, and where can users find the dropped refs?

My situation is exactly similar to what Konstantin pointed. Pasting his link
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/external/chromium_org/log/?h=LA.AF.1.1.1

If you hover over the first log, there are about 8 tags and 5 branch
points at the HEAD. Without the css trick that Konstantin is using the
page will be long horizontally which is clumsy.

So if we can do this:
1) Give an option to limit the entries (tag and branch name combined)
2) Add a tooltip kind of icon (like ">>") beside each tags and
branches separately when the limit specified in 1 above is reached.
Put the extra/old ones under this, just like in the CSS trick.

Maybe there are other options to do this. Mine is just a idea to
reduce clumsiness of the web view. People shouldn't turn away from
cgit due to this :)

>
> My only thought at the moment is to support switching on/off branch and
> tag names in addition to the existing support for remote branches, or to
> allow filtering by pattern or regex.