On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:43 PM, jschank <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be nice if... > When searching for a repository, the results had some sort of > indication of which project was the original. The master vampire, if > you will, from which the others are descended.
Do you really want to see an inactive root, though? Right now I believe the search weighs active projects more heavily. You can always get to the root quite easily from the repo's page. > It would also be nice if... > When looking at a project, there was some sort of tree view (similar > to the network graph) which shows the hierarchy of forked projects. > (Master vampire at the root, of course) and a tag line which describes > the focus of the fork. (or perhaps the most recent commit message) I agree. We're close to this: http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/network/members Adding the description, latest commit, or both would make that page more useful and interesting. > This would allow me, when searching for a project to know which one is > the original, and which ones are the derivatives, and also get some > idea of why the derivatives exist. Some could be solely to provide > patches back to the root. While others might be taking the project in > a new direction. It would be nice to have some idea of what that > direction might be, without needing to hop to each project and read > all the readmes. (I'd rather focus on a few readmes and go to them) > > I'm thinking of something less graphical than the network - which > shows lots of commit points - and something more textual which could > serve as a navigational aid. > > It might also be nice if... > The fork tree could stay visible, as a navigation aid while browsing a > forked project. That's interesting. I wonder how possible it is, though, for big projects with many forks and an active network graph? -- Chris Wanstrath http://github.com/defunkt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
